Join Dr. Rachel Laryea as she talks with us about her book, Black Capitalists.

Dr. Rachel is a thought leader who specializes in race and money, ethical entrepreneurship, and social good. After cutting her teeth on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs, she went on to receive her dual Ph.D. in African American Studies and Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University. Her ethnographic research aims to understand nuanced forms of Black participation in capitalist economies.

Race makes a difference in how we participate in capitalism. And, that difference teaches all of us something about how to create a more equitable version of the political economy. This talk aims to unpack both the problematics and potential of the broken economic system we did not choose to inherit, but are responsible for changing. We will assess the tools of capitalism that can be activated in service of something capitalism, as we know it today, leaves little to no room for social good.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Dean of the Faculty, and Department of Africana Studies.