The 2020 Election and What Not: Race Matters Before/After the Election with Donna Murch

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Nov 21, 2020 United States
The 2020 Election and What Not: Race Matters Before/After the Election with Donna Murch

The 2020 Election and What Not: Race Matters Before/After the Election with Donna Murch

By : Bassam Haddad

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad interviewed Donna Murch, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, about the 2020 US Presidential Election.

In this conversation, Donna Murch speaks on the recent Black Lives Matter movement and race matters more broadly regarding the recent elections and beyond in the United States.

Those unable to access the video via Facebook can watch it via Youtube.

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Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She is currently completing a new trade press book entitled Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs. She also has a forthcoming books of essays that will be published later this year entitled, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration and the Movement for Black Lives. In October 2010, Murch published the award-winning monograph Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California with the University of North Carolina Press, which won the Phillis Wheatley prize in December 2011. She has written for the Sunday Washington Post, New Republic, Nation, Boston Review, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Black Scholar, and the Journal of American History as well as appearing in Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.

Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of the forthcoming book, A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio Magazine. Bassam is Co-Project Manager for the Salon Syria Project and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI).  He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book tittled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
Nov 13, 2020 Lebanon
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Bassam Haddad

The 2020 Election and What Not: The Transition! with Jack Goldstone

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad interviewed Jack A. Goldstone, the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Chair Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, about the 2020 US Presidential Election.

In this conversation, Jack Goldstone addresses the troubled transition after the 2020 election, and the potential turbulence during the next two years. He also addresses implications for US Democracy as well as US “exceptionalism.”

Those unable to access the video via Facebook can watch it via Youtube.

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Jack A. Goldstone (PhD, Harvard University) is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Chair Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. and a Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center. He has won major prizes from the American Sociological Association, the International Studies Association and the Historical Society for his research on revolutions and social change, and has won grants from the MacArthur, JS Guggenheim and Andrew Carnegie Foundations, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the National Science Foundation. Goldstone has authored or edited thirteen books and published over one hundred and fifty articles in books and scholarly journals. His latest books include Why Europe? The Rise of the West 1500-1850 (McGraw-Hill, 2008; Chinese Translation 2010), Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Oxford 2012) and Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2014).

Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of the forthcoming book, A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio Magazine. Bassam is Co-Project Manager for the Salon Syria Project and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI).  He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book tittled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).