southside group

2. The Color of Law and a Consumer’s Republic

Thursday, February 28, 2019 11:00 AM EST
Southside Dining Hall Blackstone Room

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Reading:

Rothstein, Richard. The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. Liveright Publishing, 2017.

Cohen, Lizabeth: A Consumers’ Republic: the politics of mass consumption in postwar America. Vintage 2003. --- Chapters 3,4,5.

The southside group is a (roughly) biweekly lunch group composed of George Mason faculty and students. We are open to anyone interested in participating in an eclectic and serious discussion of contemporary problems under the broad rubric of political economy.

Matt Scherer, Steve Pearlstein, and Bassam Haddad are the principal organizers of the southside group. Our emails are on our respective George Mason faculty pages.

You can find us in the:

southside dining hall or the Mason club

Six Thursdays a semester from 11:00--1:00

mostly faculty 11-12, students 12-1

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