Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago and the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.
The anti-colonial struggle of the twentieth century wasn’t just about winning political independence — it was about shattering the global hierarchies that subjugated the Global South and winning an egalitarian world for all.
How academic workers have made their unions powerful tools for achieving racial justice.