The Birth of the Nonprofit Industrial Complex w/ Claire Dunning (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 4th 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system promises to address big, structural problems while at the same time structurally constraining what these groups are and aren't allowed to do. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/nonprofit-neighborhoods Find Claire’s book, “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo159872695.html Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	So much of this is based on the notion, right? The opportunity agenda of the 1960s looms large here,
0:07.3	that largely our political economy is sound and that we just need to get people onto the ladder into it,
0:14.0	right? That has been the underlying philosophy, gone by different names, gone by different sort of versions.
0:21.4	Since then, I think a non think nonprofits are wrapped up in the theory of the world that the political economy is
0:28.5	basically sound and we just need to get people into it rather than saying maybe it's a problem
0:33.4	with our political economy and the racial capitalism that undergirds it. Welcome to the death panel. Patrons, thank you so much for supporting the show. We couldn't do any of this without you. And if you'd like to help us out a little bit more,
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1:27.0	underscore.
1:28.2	So today I'm here with my co-hosts, Phil Rocco.
1:31.1	Hey.
1:31.7	And Jules Gil Peterson.
1:33.2	Hi.
1:34.0	And we are joined by a wonderful guest that we're very excited to talk to today about their book.
1:39.4	Claire Dunning is a historian of the United States in the 20th century whose work focuses on poverty,
1:45.5	racial capitalism, governance, and the nonprofit industrial complex, and is assistant professor
1:51.2	of public policy and history at the University of Maryland College Park. Claire is the author
1:56.5	of the book Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban History of Inequality and the American State,
2:01.4	published by University of Chicago Press.
2:03.9	Claire, welcome to the deaf panel.
2:05.2	It is so great to have you here today.
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