{"686986":{"#nid":"686986","#data":{"type":"event","title":"HSOC Speaker Series: Vine City as the World Trade Center: Structural Violence in Atlanta and the Crisis of the Black Worker Today","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAugustus Wood is an assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a scholar of African American history of the urban south with an interdisciplinary focus on political economy, intra-racial class struggle, working class social movements, and gentrification in modern urban regions. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe social construction of Atlanta is a structurally violent process where a pro-growth movement \u2014 led by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and executed by the majority-Black junior partners of capital \u2014 restructured the political economy into a neoliberal pillaging of Black working class bodies, labor, and land. Through the lens of the Black working class and their neighborhood social movement capacity, we can fully interpret the complex social relations of the class warfare responsible for Atlanta\u2019s transformation into the central hub of global capital accumulation and circulation in the U.S. South.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAugustus Wood, assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explores how structural violence, class struggle, and urban transformation have reshaped Atlanta through the lens of the Black working class.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Augustus Wood, assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explores how structural violence, class struggle, and urban transformation have reshaped Atlanta through the lens of the Bla"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2025-12-18 15:24:39","changed_gmt":"2026-02-23 14:06:26","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-03-09T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-03-09T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-03-09T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-03-09 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-03-09 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-03-09 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Scholars Event Theater, Price Gilbert Library","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Buskell\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abuskell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabuskell@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}