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Roderick D. Bush (November 12, 1945- December 5, 2013)

For more information, contact Melanie E L Bush, [email protected] 718.692.2407

Education:

Dates Degree Date Institution Attended and Major Conferred

Howard University 9/63 B.S. 6/67 Washington, D.C. 6/67 Psychology

University of Kansas 9/67 Clinical Lawrence, Kansas 6/71 Psychology

State University of 1/88 Ph.D. New York Binghamton 5/92 Sociology 5/92 Binghamton, NY

Dissertation Title: Social Movements Among the Urban Poor: African Americans in the Twentieth Century

Awards and Honors

American Sociological Association Marxist Section Lifetime Achievement Award 2014

Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award" St. John's University. May 24, 2011

The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line. awarded the Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Award of the American Sociological Association.

We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century awarded the 2000 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award of the American Sociological Association for the outstanding book in the anti-racist tradition of Oliver Cox

We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century named one of the “10 Indispensable Books” by The Black World Today

Research Grant St. John’s University Summer 1999

President’s Award-Outstanding Professor-Service to Students Seton Hall University 9/97-5/98

University Research Fellow Seton Hall University 6/97-8/97

Excellence in Teaching Seton Hall University 9/95-5/96

University Research Fellow Seton Hall University 6/94-9/94 Ford Foundation Post-

Doctoral Fellow Seton Hall University 9/93-8/94

University Fellow SUNY Binghamton 1/88-6/88

U.S. Public Health Fellow University of Kansas 9/67-6/70

National Competitive Scholar Howard University 9/63-6/67

Ralph Bunche Scholarship Howard University 9/63

Teaching Experience

Institution Dates Rank Department

St. John’s University 6-2013 Professor Sociology & Anthropology Jamaica, NY 11439 present

St. John’s University 6-2003 Associate Sociology & Anthropology Jamaica, NY 11439 6-2013 Professor

St. John’s University 9-98 Assistant Sociology & Anthropology Jamaica, NY 11439 6-2003 Professor

Seton Hall University 8-93 Assistant African American South Orange, NJ 07079 6-98 Professor Studies

State University of 8-92 Visiting Sociology New York at Binghamton 6-93 Assistant Afro-American & Binghamton, New York Professor African Studies

Hunter College 8-91 Lecturer Black & Puerto Rican Studies 695 Park Ave. to New York, NY 12-91 10021

State University of 8-89 Instructor Sociology New York at Binghamton 12-89 Binghamton, New York Roderick D. Bush Page 3 ______

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Kansas City Kansas 6/73 Lecturer History Community College 8/73 Kansas City, KS

University of Kansas 7/70 Lecturer Black Studies Lawrence, KS 66044 8/70

Additional Work Experience

Institution Dates Title

State University of New York 12-86 to Assistant Educational Opportunity Center 8-93 Coordinator in Brooklyn Program Development 470 Vanderbilt Street, Room 801 & Research Brooklyn, New York 11238

New York City Technical College 4-86 to Program Director Division of Continuing Education 12-86 Prison Education 250 Jay Street, M500 Program Brooklyn, New York 11201

Oxfam America 10-85 to Administrative 513 Valencia St. 3-86 Assistant San Francisco, CA 94110

Institute for the Study of 10-79 Research Labor and Economic Crisis to 9-85 Associate 2701 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94110

City of Kansas City, Missouri 7/73 to Planning Urban Affairs Department 9/79 Analyst 414 East 12th Street Kansas City, Mo. 64106

Wyandotte Mental Health Center 10/67 to Psychologist 36th and Eaton 9/72 Kansas City, Kansas

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Kansas Neurological Institute 6-70 to Psychologist Topeka, Kansas 9/70

Areas of Teaching Interests

Race and Ethnicity World-Systems Studies Race and Class The Black Family Poverty and Social Structure The Black Church Social Movements History of Black Nationalism Social Stratification History of Civil Rights Race Relations Social Change African American Politics African American Studies Urban Sociology

Research Interests

The Political Economy of the Underclass Movements and Leaders in Black Communities Community Organizing for Social Change Black Power and Social Change Racism in the Longue Duree Racism and the Conservative Backlash, Middle Run Rationale Rise and Fall of the New Deal and Its Coalition Race, Gender, Class Capitalism, the Third World (within and without), and Globalization Internal colonialism The Coloniality of Power Pan-European Racism Black Internationalism U.S. Nationalism Self Organization of the Black Working Class

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Publications

Books:

Melanie E.L. Bush and Roderick D. Bush, Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality? Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015.

Roderick D. Bush, The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line. Temple University Press, 2009.

Rod Bush, We are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Rod Bush (ed.), The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities. San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Roderick Bush, "Africana Studies and the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century," Socialism and Democracy, #54 Vol. 24, No. 3, March 2011, pp. 87-107.

Roderick D. Bush, "Black Internationalism and Transnational Africa," in Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome and Olufemi Vaughn (Editors), Globalization and Transnational Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Rod Bush, 2010. “The Rise of the Third World Within and the End of the Evil System of Imperialism,” Enwisdomization Journal, Volume 3, Number 3.

Rod Bush, The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Journal of World-Systems Research, Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 283-290.

Rod Bush, 2008. “The Internal Colony Hybrid: Reformulating Structure, Culture, and Agency,” in Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy (Eds.), Hybrid Identities: Theoretical & Empirical Examinations. Boston, MA: Brill Publishers.

Melanie E. L. Bush and Roderick D. Bush. 2008. "Case Study: United States Nation and Nationalism Post World War II." In David H. Kaplan and Guntram H. Herb (Eds.), Nations and Nationalisms in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions. Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO.

Bush, Rod 2008. “The African Blood Brotherhood,” in Immanuel Ness, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. London: Blackwell Publishing. Roderick D. Bush Page 6 ______

Bush, Rod 2008. “Fred Hampton,” in Immanuel Ness, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. London: Blackwell Publishing.

Bush, Rod 2008. “Walter Rodney,” in Immanuel Ness, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. London: Blackwell Publishing.

Bush, Rod 2008. “C.L.R. James,” in Immanuel Ness, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. London: Blackwell Publishing.

Rod Bush, “Acting for a Good Society: Racism and Black Liberation in the Longue Duree,” in Hernan Vera and Joe Feagin (eds.), Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations. Kluwer Press, 2007.

Bush, Rod. 2006. “It is Not Race or Class, But Race and Class: an Interview by Ron Jacobs,” Monthly Review Zine, October.

Rod Bush, “Review Essay: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color- Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States,” Science and Society, Vol. 70, No. 3, July 2006.

Rod Bush, “Violence and the ‘Revolutionary’ Times of the Black Panther Party,” in Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams (eds.), “Between Culture and Politics”: Towards a New History of the Black Panther Party. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Forthcoming, 2006.

Rod Bush, “A Long Walk With Andre Gunder Frank,” Social Justice, Volume 32, No. 2. , 2006.

Rod Bush, “Black Internationalism and the Decline of White World Supremacy,” Sage Race Relations Abstract, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2005.

Rod Bush, “Reflections on Black Internationalism as Strategy,” Socialism and Democracy, Volume 19, No. 1, March 2005.

Rod Bush, “ The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America,” Social Justice, Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2003.

Rod Bush, “African Americans, Social Justice, and the Aftermath of September 11, 2001,” Socialism and Democracy, Volume 17, No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 2003), 1-12.

Rod Bush, “Black Nationalism,” in Jack Salzman (ed.), Encyclopedia of African- American Culture and History, Supplement I. New York: Macmillan, 2000. Roderick D. Bush Page 7 ______

Rod Bush, “The Revival of Black Nationalism and the Crisis of Liberal Universalism,” in Robert Birt (ed.), Of the Quest for Community and Identity: An Africana Philosophical Anthology. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Rod Bush and William Sales, Jr., “The Political Awakening of Blacks and Latinos in New York City: Competition or Cooperation,” Social Justice, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 19-42.

Rod Bush (with William Sales Jr.), "Black and Latino Coalitions: Prospects for New Social Movements in New York City. In James Jennings (ed.), Race and Politics in the United States: New Challenges and Responses for Black Activism. London: Verso, 1997.

Rod Bush, “Hegemony and Resistance in the United States: Race, Class, and Gender,” in Immanuel Wallerstein (ed.), Essays in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins, 1998.

Rod, Bush, "Notebook on Ethiopia" Contemporary Marxism, #11, 1986.

Rod Bush, "The South African Brand of State Supported Terrorism," Crime and Social Justice, #24, 1985.

Rod Bush, "Introduction: Black Enfranchisement, Jesse Jackson, and Beyond," in Rod Bush (ed.), The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities. San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984, pp. 13-51.

Rod Bush, "Oakland: Grassroots Organizing Against Reagan," in Rod Bush (ed.), The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities. San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984, pp. 315-374.

Rod Bush, "Racism and Changes in the International Division of Labor," in Crime and Social Justice, #21, 1984.

Rod Bush and Richard Schauffler, "Terror at Pantasma," in Marlene Dixon and Susanne Jonas, Nicaragua Under Siege. San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984, pp. 60-63.

Rod Bush, "The United States and South Africa in a Period of World Crisis," in Bernard Magubane and Nzongola-Ntalaja, Proletarianization and Class Struggle in Africa. San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1983, pp. 1-18.

Rod Bush, "Racism and the Rise of the Right," Contemporary Marxism, No. 4, Winter 1981-82.

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Responses and Reviews

Roderick Bush, “When the Revolution Came,” a review of Max Elbaum’s Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che. In Radical History Review, Issue 90 (Fall 2004), pp. 102-111.

Rod Bush, “Review of Taeku Lee, Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era.” In Contemporary Sociology, Volume 32, No. 5, September, 2003.

Rod Bush, “Review of Adolph Reed, Jr. (Ed.), Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat From Racial Equality. In Contemporary Justice Review, 2002, Vol. 5(3), pp. 299-304.

Rod Bush, “Review of William Nelson Jr.’s Black Atlantic Politics: Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool, In Contemporary Sociology, October 2001.

Rod Bush, “Comment: Response to Belinda Robnett,” Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 2, March 2001, pp. 218-219.

Rod Bush, “Review of Michael Eric Dyson’s Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X and William W. Sales, Jr., From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 5, September 1998, pp. 1012-1014.

Rod Bush, "Review of Abele Zegeye, Leonard Harris, and Julia Maxted (eds.), Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary U.S. Society, in Ethnic and Racial Relations, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 1995. Rod Bush, "Review of James Jennings and Mel King (ed.), From Access to Power: Black Politics in Boston," The Guardian, September, 1986.

Rod Bush, "Response to Manuel Castells," Contemporary Marxism, No. 6, Spring 1983, pp. 233-237.

Rod Bush, "Response to Paul Takagi's 'Comments on Racism and the Rise of the Right," Contemporary Marxism, No. 5, Summer 1982, pp. 155-156.

Rod Bush, "Review of Manning Marable's Blackwater: Historical Studies in Race, Class Consciousness and Revolution," Contemporary Marxism, No. 4, Winter 1981-82.

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Presentations at Professional Meetings

July 2014. Multiple Crises of U. S. Hegemony, Historical Capitalism, and White World Supremacy. Co-authored with Melanie E L Bush. Paper read by colleague at the International Sociology Association. Yokohama, Japan. July.

January 30, 2013, Rod Bush Presentation on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and I Have A Dream Speech, for the "Freedom and Equality" program for Black History Month on Wednesday, at St. John's University.

February 11, 2013, Rod Bush, Presentation on "Black Internationalism and Transnational Africa," Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

August 1-4, 2012, Rod Bush, "Tensions in the American dream: Racial nationalism and the multiple crises of U.S. hegemony, historical capitalism, and white world supremacy," for Research Committee 36 on Alienation Theory and Research, Session B: "Race, alienation and everyday life." at the International Sociological Association, ISA Forum of Sociology, Social Justice and Democratization | Buenos Aires, Argentina | August 1-4, 2012.

April 21, 2011, Rod Bush Commentator , John Munro, "Cold War and Anticolonialism," NYU Tamiment Library, United States and the Cold War Series.  April 28, 2011, Rod Bush Speaker at the "40th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the of the Department of African and African-American Studies at The University of Kansas."  June 11-24, 2011, Roderick Bush at CIEE Faculty Development Seminar in Brazil's - Salvador da Bahia

November 20, 2011, Roderick Bush, Commentator, Traces and Legacies of the Social: Constructing Alternative Visions of Collective Life, American Anthropological Association, Montreal.

February 13, 2012, Roderick Bush, On the Meaning of Malcolm X for the Black Freedom Struggle and the Struggle Against White World Supremacy, St. John's University, Black History Month.

March 13, 2012, Introduced Academic Lecture Series - (Re-)Discovering Malcolm X, Zaheer Ali who was project manager of the Malcolm X Project , under the leadership of the late Manning Marable of Columbia University - Queens Campus, 5:00 PM, Marillac Terrace, Queens Campus

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March 16-18, 2012, Rod Bush, "Is There A Crisis of the Black Left," Left Forum 2012, Pace University, New York City.

March 16-18, 2012, Rod Bush, "Internal Colonialism in the Age of Obama," Left Forum 2012, Pace University, New York City.

March 16-18, 2012, Roderick Bush, "Transnational Africa and Globalization," Left Forum 2012, Pace University, New York City.

March 16-18, 2012, Roderick Bush, "The Racial Wealth Gap," Left Forum 2012, Pace University, New York City.

April 27, 2012, "A New Vision of Black Freedom: The Manning Marable Memorial Conference," Panel on "Manning Marable's Legacies and Lessons," Roderick D. Bush: "The Legacy of Marable's How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America.

April 21, 2011, Rod Bush Commentator , John Munro, "Cold War and Anticolonialism," NYU Tamiment Library, United States and the Cold War Series.

April 28, 2011, Rod Bush Speaker at the "40th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the of the Department of African and African-American Studies at The University of Kansas."

March 20, 2011, " Africana Studies :Which Way Forward : Marxism or Afrocentricity?" Sponsored by: Socialism and Democracy

March 20, 2011, Left Forum Panel, "How 'The Declining Significance of Race' Helped to Hide Internal Colonialism in Plain Sight." Arthur Paris—Syracuse University, Charles Pinderhughes—University of Massachusetts—Boston, Rod Bush—St. John's University.

March 20, 2011, Chair, Closing Plenary of the 2011 Left Forum (Rod Bush Malalai Moya, Carlos Vilas, John Nichols)

March 19, 2011, Left Forum Panel, "The Cold War and Decolonization," John Garvey—NYC Taxi Rank and File Coalition, co-Editor of Race Traitor, John Munro—Harvard University, Rod Bush—St. John's University

March 26, 2010, Keynote Presentation, "The Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Crises of White World Supremacy, U.S. Hegemony, and Historical Capitalism," Graduate Student Conference on Historical Sociology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. Roderick D. Bush Page 11 ______

March 20, 2010, Left Forum 2010, Critic at "Author Meets Critic Session: Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell, Pace University, NYC."

March 19, 2010, Taught Introductory Session on Race and the Long Black Freedom Struggle, Left Forum 2010, Pace University, NYC.

March 17, 2010, Presentation on "Barack Obama, the New Black Vote, and the Future of the United States, Joseph S. Murphy Institute Urban Studies Program, City University of New York.

February 23, 2010, The End of White World Supremacy Presentation and Book Party, Brecht Forum, NYC.

December 22, 2009, KPFA Pacifica, Berkeley, CA, Walter Turner, Africa Today, Interview with Dr. Roderick Bush on his book "The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line"

October 12, 2009, Presentation on "Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line," Penn State University, Brown Bag Series.

August 11, 2009, Paper presented at 104th Annual Meeting Of The American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, “Black Solidarity, Black Internationalism, And The Obama Election

August 10, 2009, Presentation on Black Internationalism and the Transnational Working Class, Black Alliance for a Just Immigration, Oakland, CA

April 17, 2009, Left Forum Pace University, Presented paper, Some Notes on the Socio- Historical Context of the Black Liberation Movement: Rethinking Race ,Class, and Colonialism in the Belly of the Beast, Paper to be read at the Left Forum, New York City, April 17-19, 2009.

Bush, Roderick D. 2008 (December) Presented paper on “Black Internationalism and Transnational Africa,” Symposium on Transnational Africa and Globalization, Bowdoin College.

Bush, Roderick D. 2008 (August) Conference Organizer and Chair of Sessions of the Mini- Conference on Race, Labor, and Empire, Labor and Labor Movement Section of the American Sociological Association and the Association of Black Sociologists

Bush, Roderick D. 2008 (August) Panel Organizer and Presided, “Theorizing Race and Racism,” Mini-Conference on Race, Labor, and Empire, Labor and Labor Movement Roderick D. Bush Page 12 ______

Section of the American Sociological Association and the Association of Black Sociologists.

Bush, Roderick D. 2008 (August) Panel Organizer, Presided, Commentator, “The Black Working Class After 1970 in Sociological Theory,” Association of Black Sociologists.

Bush, Roderick D. 2009 (March) Presented paper on “Black Internationalism and the Third World Within: Towards the Transcendence of the American Dream,” International Conference “Does Discrimination Shape Identity? Politics and Minorities in English Speaking Countries and in France: Rhetoric and Reality, Paris 13 University, March 26-27, 2009.

Bush, Roderick D. 2009 (April) Presented paper on “Rethinking Race, Class, and Colonialism in the Belly of the Beast,” at the Left Forum, New York, NY.

Bush, Roderick D. 2007 (November) Author of Paper, “The Rise of the Third World Within and the End of the Evil System of Imperialism,” Paper to be read at the Globalization: Migration, Citizenship and Identity, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, November 6–9, 2007.

Bush, Roderick D. 2007 (October) Author of Paper, “The Black Popular Front and Social Transformation in New York City,” Paper read at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY on October 26 and 27, 2007.

Bush, Roderick D. 2007 (August) Author of Paper, “Black Internationalism, the Third World Within, and the American Dream,” American Sociological Association, New York, NY

Bush, Roderick D. 2007 (August) Author of Paper, “Twilight Time: White World Supremacy, the American Century, and Historical Capitalism,” American Sociological Association, New York, NY.

Bush, Roderick D. 2007 (August) Panel Organizer and Presided, Special Session on Black Liberation for the American Sociological Association and the Association of Black Sociologists, “Dialogue on the Future of Black Liberation: Activists and Scholars Talk”

Bush, Melanie E.L. & Roderick D. Bush, (June 1, 2007), “Tensions in the 'American' Dream: Asian and Asian American Experiences,” Presentation at the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI)

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2006 (August) Author of Paper, “Racism and Black Liberation in the Longue Duree,” American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec.

2006 (August) Author of Paper, “African Americans and the Coloniality of Power: Rethinking the Internal Colonialism Debate,” Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal, Quebec.

2006 (March) Critic in Author Meets Critic Session, Wilma Dunaway, The African- American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA.

2005 (August) Author of Paper, “Black Internationalism and the Decline of White World Supremacy,” American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

2005 (August) Author of Paper, “Black Insurgency and the Spectre of Social Revolution,” Association of Black Sociologists, Philadelphia, PA.

2005 (April) Author of paper, “Black Insurgency, Social Revolution, and the Rise of the Underclass: the Dialectics of the Moral Values/Family Values Debate,” Left Forum, New York City. 2005 (March) Author of paper, “War And Imperialism, Racism And Revolution,” Educators Against the War, New York City.

2005 (February) Presentation, “Subverting the Color Line Through the Black Liberation Movement,” University of San Diego.

2004 (September) Presented Paper on “Multiple Impediments to Diversity,” Greater Rochester Diversity Conference. 2003 (August 16) Author of Paper. “The Sociology of the Color Line: W.E.B. DU Bois and the End of White World Supremacy,” paper submitted for the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.

2002 (August 16) Author of Paper. “All Power to the People:” From Civil Rights to Social Revolution, at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

2001 (August 17-21) Respondent. Author Meets Critic Session, Rod Bush, We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century, at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 17-21, 2001, Anaheim, CA.

2001 (August 17-21) Author of Paper. “Overcoming the American Dream: Black Roderick D. Bush Page 14 ______

Power and Global Democracy,” paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 17-21, 2001, Anaheim, CA.

“Author Meets Critic: We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century, Annual Meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists, Washington, D.C., August 9-12, 2000.

Presented paper “When the Revolution Comes: Black Liberation and the Twilight of the American Century,” at SORAC 2000 International Conference, Black Thought and Movements in World History, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, April 27-29, 2000.

Presented paper on “African Americans and the National Question: The Structuring of Power Within the World-System,” at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-11, 1999.

Organized and presided over panel, “Racism and the National Question,” at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-11, 1999.

Critics Discuss We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century. Socialist Scholar’s Conference, April 11, 1999.

Organized and Presided over panel on “Fighting Racism and Social Transformation,” at the 93rd Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 21-25, 1998.

Organized panel on “Activism and Racial Justice Movements,” at the 93rd Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 21-25, 1998.

Presented paper on “Class Struggle Within the Black Nation: On Hypocrites and Bloodsuckers.” at the 93rd Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 21-25, 1998.

Presented paper on “Reassessing Black Power at a Time of Deep Social Crisis,” at 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Ontario, August 9- 13, 1997.

Organized "Author Meets Critic Session" on Stephen Steinberg's book, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy, at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 17, 1996.

Discussant for panel on "Marxism and Social Transformation: Opportunities, Roderick D. Bush Page 15 ______

Constraints, Struggles," at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 19, 1996.

Presided for panel on "The Politics of Race/Ethnicity: Global and Domestic Ideologies of Oppression and Resistance," at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 17, 1996.

Presented paper on "Black and Latino Coalitional Efforts in New York City: Prospects for New Social Movements," (with William W. Sales, Jr.), at conference on Urban Challenges Facing Blacks and Latinos in the 1990s: Strategies of Contention and Collaboration, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 7-9, 1995.

Presented paper on "The Nationalism of Malcolm X: Bad Niggers and the Logic of the Oppressed," at 90th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 19-23, 1995.

Presented paper on "The Role of the Left in Promoting Cultural Hegemony Among African American Social Movements and Leaders, at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA, August 5-9, 1994.

Presented paper on "The Impact of Afrocentrism and Multiculturalism on the Struggle for Democracy: The Contradictions of Liberal Universalism," at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach, FL, 1993

Presented paper on "The Continuing Centrality of Racism," at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach, FL, 1993

Presented paper on "Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa" at the African Association of Political Science meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1985.

Presented paper on "Unemployment and Social Transformation" at the World Futures Society in Washington, D.C. in 1984.

Presented paper on "Debt Crisis and Social Transformation" at Pacific Coast Council on Latin America in Los Angeles in 1984.

"Economic Crisis and Industrial Reorganization," Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit, Michigan, August 1983.

"Full Employment: Prospects for Organizing in the 1980's," Paper read at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit, Michigan, August 1983 (co-authored by Tom Bodenheimer)

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Presented paper on "The Afro-American Movement and the Struggle Against Eurocentric Marxism," at the Latin America Studies Association in Mexico City in 1983.

Presented paper on "Racism and the World Division of Labor," at the Fisk University Forum on Corporate Power and Black America in 1983.

Presented paper on "A World-Systems Approach to the Black Movement" at the National Council on Black Studies in Berkeley, California in 1983.

Presented paper on "U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa" at the African Studies Association in Washington, D.C. in 1982.

Presented paper on "Racism and the Attack on Labor" at the World Congress of Sociology in Mexico City in 1982.