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ABSTRACT
On October 6, 2022, Armond Towns met via Zoom with Paula Chakravartty to discuss her research on race, communication, colonialism, and capitalism. Chakravartty is James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University and has published extensively on the intersections of political economy, critical race theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and media and communication theory. Chakravartty is co-author of Media Policy and Globalization (with Katharine Sarikakis) and co-editor of both Race, Empire and the Subprime (with Denise Ferreira da Silva) and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (with Yuezhi Zhao). The conversation is edited for clarity and length.
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