Writings

Below is a collection of writings and transcriptions of past event speeches and presentations.

2021

China Conference

What the Cultural Revolution Teaches Us about China—And America Today | Emily Dong

Deng Xiaoping, Saving the Party and New China | Jahanzaib Choudhry

A Historical Perspective of India-China Relations: The Hope for Modern Times | Purba Chatterjee

The Chinese Peasant and the Black Worker: ‘Red Star Over China’ and ‘Black Reconstruction in America’ | Anna Pugsley Koh

What Happened in the American Elections? | Archishman Raju

Readings & Discussion Topics

Strategy for a Black Agenda (Henry Winston, 1972)

The Rise of China

Russia & America (unpublished manuscript by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1950)

2020

V.I. Lenin and W.E.B. Du Bois: Class Struggle and Civilization | Dr. Anthony Monteiro

Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis | Dr. Anthony Monteiro

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: A failed comparison and a deeply flawed book | Archishman Raju

Mahatma Gandhi was not a racist, but the attacks on him are | Meghna Chandra

The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time | Dr. Anthony Monteiro

James Baldwin Still Matters and Eddie Glaude’s Book on Him Doesn’t | Dr. Anthony Monteiro

2016: Crack in the Mirror of White Supremacy | Meghna Chandra

2019

The Struggle for a Positive Peace | Nandita Chaturvedi

Vietnamese Americans and the Price of Becoming White | Brandon Do

I Want to be Chinese | Emily Dong

Readings & Discussion Topics

Solitary: A Biography | Albert Woodfox, 2019

Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney | David Leeming, 1998

Dark Princess | W.E.B. Du Bois, 1928