Wednesday, April 8th: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Walter Reuther Archives, 2nd Floor Conference Room (#200)

Augustus Wood, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, will present from his book, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots, Power, and Repression under Gentrification. Augustus is a scholar of African American history of the urban south. His current, interdisciplinary research focuses on political economy, intra-racial class struggle, working class social movements, and gentrification in modern urban regions.

Wood’s work centralizes the role of labor struggles in anti-Black working-class racial oppression and the development of internal neo-colonialism. His other research includes Black Power in Southern Cities, Black Marxism in History, and Black Radicalism in labor social movements.