The Theorypractice Lab for political education presents:
Laundering Black Rage with authors Too Black and Rasul Mowatt.

View Video: https://youtu.be/eRKA-wnz5rA?si=RRgr93OSxNzzq6lU
 
The Theorypractice Lab (https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/) at the University of Waterloo held a community event April 4, 2025 at the Kitchener Public Library with authors Too Black and Rasul Mowatt to discuss their book Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits.

In this recording of the event, they discuss the ways that Black Rage—conceived as a constructive and logical response to the conquest of resources, land, and human beings racialized as Black—is cleaned for the unyielding means of white capital and liberalism at the expense of meaningful material change. Interlacing political theory with international histories of Black rebellion, Too Black and Rasul debunk the myths that Black capitalism will lead to liberation under our current exploitative socio-political arrangements and discuss how to challenge these counterinsurgent tactics of the State that consistently convert Black Rage into a commodity to be bought, sold, and repressed.

This event is presented by The Theorypractice Lab at the University of Waterloo, co-sponsored by UW Black Studies, Health Teaching Fellows, and the EDI-AR UW Faculty of Health Seed Fund. Special thanks to Jermal Jones of the UW Libraries. The Theorypractice Lab, founded by Dr. Lisbeth Berbary, cultivates spaces of encounter for students to engage with political education, build collaborative relations, develop analytic tools, and expand organizing skills towards igniting transformative material change within our communities.

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