REDISTRIBUTION

DISCUSSION 3

How is the willingness to redistribute generated? How does willingness at an individual level translate to a larger institutional or national scale? Is it the same strategy? How can the moral argument to redistribute hold against or with pragmatism?

“Beyond knowledge, we need persuasive narratives.”

Part 1

Kate Bahn, economist and labor policy expert, discusses gender and racial wage gaps, monopsony, moral arguments and pragmatism, and narrative as a tool.

“We’ve learned to build and share equity ourselves.”

Part 2

Damien Davis, artist and educator, discusses Black Wall Street, mentorship and information sharing, self-determination, and mutual aid in redistribution.

REFERENCES, PART 1:

Kate Bahn and Carmen Sanchez Cumming, “Five Ways to Understand Black Women’s Equal Pay Day,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth, August 13, 2020

Kate Bahn and Carmen Sanchez Cumming, “July jobs report: Coronavirus recession continues to hit Latinx workers in service jobs amid unprecedented U.S. labor market volatility,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth, August 7, 2020

Kate Bahn, Jennifer Cohen, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, “A feminist economic policy agenda in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the quest for racial justice,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth, June 29, 2020

Kate Bahn, Heather Boushey, “Women’s Work-Life Economics,” LERA Perspectives on Work, 2019

Heather Boushey, “The Political Economy of Time and ‘Work-Life Conflict,” 2016

Darrick Hamilton, “How ‘Baby Bonds’ Could Help Close the Wealth Gap,” 2018

REFERENCES, PART 2:

Damien Davis, Collapse, exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center, 2020

M. Charles Stevens, “Damien Davis Explores the Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre Through Collage,” Hyperallergic, December 6, 2019

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission

“The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of its Victims,”  Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Biography of Dr. Eugene Grigsby, artist and educator

GUEST BIOS:

Kate Bahn is the director of labor market policy and economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her areas of research include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market, care work, and monopsonistic labor markets. Previously, she was an Economist at the Center for American Progress. Bahn also serves as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has published popular economics writing for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, and Newsweek. Bahn received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College.

Damien Davis is a Brooklyn-based artist, born in Crowley, Louisiana and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of blackness by unpacking the visual language of various cultures, questioning how these societies code/decode representations of race through craft, design and digital modes of production. Made up of glyphic shapes, patterns, and images, the works interact in dynamic ways, creating ever-shifting relationships and meanings, while brokering new associations and conversations. His work has appeared at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Arts and Design, and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. Mr. Davis has also presented solo exhibitions in Philadelphia and Seattle, as well as Reading Pennsylvania and Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Davis has also participated in group exhibitions across the country, as well as in Hiroshima, Japan and Florence, Italy. He is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant and has been awarded residencies with the Museum of Arts and Design, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Pilchuck Glass School. Mr. Davis is also a former fellow and current advisor for the Art & Law Program in New York City. 

Discussion 3 was released on Wednesday, August 18, 2020.