Lee Medovoi

CRPE hosts Medovoi for a lecture on racial capitalism, the role of police and ‘ensoulment’

CRPE hosts Medovoi for a lecture on racial capitalism, the role of police and ‘ensoulment’

Students and faculty listened intently as Lee Medovoi discussed his forthcoming book “The Inner Life of Race: Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial Power.” Medovoi, professor of English and vice chair of the graduate program in social, cultural and critical theory at the University of Arizona, visited Mount Holyoke College on Wednesday, Feb. 21, to give a lecture titled ‘Racial Capitalism, Civil Society & Police Power.’