Catherine Hall on Racial Capitalism

Conjuncture

Jordan T. Camp speaks with feminist historian Catherine Hall about the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, social reproduction, and her groundbreaking new book, *Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism* (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2024) to open season 4 of Conjuncture. This season is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation.

Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London, an editor for both the Critical Perspectives on Empire series at Cambridge University Press and the Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series at Duke University Press, and the author of multiple books about Britain and empire, including most recently, *Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism* (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, CT; a National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library; and a Stuart Hall fellow in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.