Episode 87: Racial Capitalism - Jonathan Tran & Malcolm Foley

Joel spoke with two first-time guests to the podcast, Jonathan Tran & Malcolm Foley, about their recent books and their work to more precisely illuminate and define the "racial capitalism" in which those of us in the Western world live. It's a stimulating and wide-ranging conversation about race, economics, history, higher education, politics and more. Of course, we end with a discussion of what we have all been reading.

Dr. Jonathan Tran is the author of multiple books, including Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (2022, Oxford UP), as well as Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University’s Divinity School.

Dr. Malcolm Foley is a pastor, historian, and speaker who serves as special adviser to the president for equity and campus engagement at Baylor University. He has written for Christianity Today, The Anxious Bench, and Mere Orthodoxy, and is the author of the brand-new book The Anti-Greed Gospel (Brazos).

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) 

• Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others: The Political Economy of Racism in the United States (essay) by Judith Stein
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist
• God's Reign and the End of Empires by Antonio Gonzalez
• We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
• White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization by Andrew Krinks
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
• $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin & Luke Shaefer
• The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas
• Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI by John Cassidy
• Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by Khaled Anatolios