Sylvie Laurent joins Michael Dawson in conversation about her recent publication, King and the Other America: The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality (University of California Press, 2019). 

Suggested Readings: 

Bobby Cervantes, "Revisiting the Poor People's Campaign and Its Legacy" (AAIHS)

Robert Greene II, "The Language of the Unheard" (The Nation)

Kirkus Reviews, "King and the Other America" 

Sylvie Laurent, "Martin Luther King fifty years on" (Le Monde diplomatique)

Sylvie Laurent,  La Couleur du marché, Racisme et néolibéralisme aux États-Unis, Le Seuil, Paris, 2017.