Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Author at Public Seminar

Activism

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

A conversation on the part-time faculty strike and freedom on campus

February 14, 2024 • by Cresa Pugh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Julie Beth Napolin

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and author of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else), joined Cresa Pugh and Julie Beth Napolin at The New School in December 2023, for a conversation on racial capital in university life, the New ...

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

What oppression is, at the end of the day, is a world that has been built in a bad way

It just isn’t true that the only problem that confronts people who are trying to learn the truth about their social system is that they haven’t talked to enough people who have less money than them, or a more marginalized racial or gender identity. That’s among the problems, but the ...