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| histories of racial capitalism: Histories of Racial Capitalism Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins, 2021-02-09 The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism—since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification. Although Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term, racial capitalism has remained undertheorized for nearly four decades. Histories of Racial Capitalism brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept across historical settings. These scholars offer dynamic accounts of the relationship between social relations of exploitation and the racial terms through which they were organized, justified, and contested. Deploying an eclectic array of methods, their works range from indigenous mortgage foreclosures to the legacies of Atlantic-world maroons, from imperial expansion in the continental United States and beyond to the racial politics of municipal debt in the New South, from the ethical complexities of Latinx banking to the postcolonial dilemmas of extraction in the Caribbean. Throughout, the contributors consider and challenge how some claims about the history and nature of capitalism are universalized while others remain marginalized. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today’s scholars and activists. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Colonial Racial Capitalism Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd, Brian Jordan Jefferson, 2022-08-29 The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism. Among other topics, the essays explore the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to debt, the violence of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada and the Belgian Congo, how municipal property assessment and waste management software encodes and produces racial difference, how Puerto Rican police crackdowns on protestors in 2010 and 2011 drew on decades of policing racially and economically marginalized people, and how historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the Mexican-American War in ways that occlude the war’s imperialist groundings. The volume’s analytic of colonial racial capitalism opens new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence, precarity, and inequality in modern society. Contributors. Joanne Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Lisa Marie Cacho, Michael Dawson, Iyko Day, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alyosha Goldstein, Cheryl I. Harris, Kimberly Kay Hoang, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Susan Koshy, Marisol LeBrón, Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido |
| histories of racial capitalism: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism Jonathan Tran, 2021-11-09 Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. The current emphasis on racial identity obscures the political economic basis that makes racialized life in America legible. This is especially true when it comes to Asian Americans. This book reframes the conversation in terms of what has been called racial capitalism and utilizes two extended case studies to show how Asian Americans perpetuate and resist its political economy. |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Broken Heart of America Walter Johnson, 2020-04-14 A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States. |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Color of Money Mehrsa Baradaran, 2017-09-14 “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.” —The Atlantic “Extraordinary...Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America.” —Ezra Klein When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than 1 percent of the total wealth in America. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. With the civil rights movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted “black capitalism,” a plan to support black banks and minority-owned businesses. But the catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. In this timely and eye-opening account, Baradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. “Black capitalism has not improved the economic lives of black people, and Baradaran deftly explains the reasons why.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A must read for anyone interested in closing America’s racial wealth gap.” —Black Perspectives |
| histories of racial capitalism: No Mercy Here Sarah Haley, 2016-02-17 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life. A landmark history of black women's imprisonment in the South, this book recovers stories of the captivity and punishment of black women to demonstrate how the system of incarceration was crucial to organizing the logics of gender and race, and constructing Jim Crow modernity. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Cedric J. Robinson Cedric J. Robinson, 2019 A collection of essays by the influential founder of the black radical tradition |
| histories of racial capitalism: American Capitalism Sven Beckert, Christine Desan, 2018-02-06 The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more. But an understanding of the history of American capitalism is as elusive as it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism change our understanding of American history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the racialization of capitalism; labor beyond industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and contested by participants, how it spreads across the globe, and how it can be reconceptualized without being universalized. A major statement for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work that the history of capitalism can provoke. |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Bonds of Inequality Destin Jenkins, 2021-04-29 Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power. In this passionate and deeply researched book, Destin Jenkins shows in vivid detail how, beyond the borrowing decisions of American cities and beneath their quotidian infrastructure, there lurks a world of politics and finance that is rarely seen, let alone understood. Focusing on San Francisco, The Bonds of Inequality offers a singular view of the postwar city, one where the dynamics that drove its creation encompassed not only local politicians but also banks, credit rating firms, insurance companies, and the national municipal bond market. Moving between the local and the national, The Bonds of Inequality uncovers how racial inequalities in San Francisco were intrinsically tied to municipal finance arrangements and how these arrangements were central in determining the distribution of resources in the city. By homing in on financing and its imperatives, Jenkins boldly rewrites the history of modern American cities, revealing the hidden strings that bind debt and power, race and inequity, democracy and capitalism. |
| histories of racial capitalism: The History of Black Business in America Juliet E. K. Walker, 2009 In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant. Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism after the first decades of settlement did not indicate secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons, diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the latter. |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Production of Difference David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch, 2012-05-31 Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how modern management was made at the margins. Even in scientific management, playing races against each other remained a hallmark of managerial strategy. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan, 2021-04-26 In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to rape, separated from their kin at slave markets, and subject to laws that enslaved their children upon birth. In this way, they were central to the binding of reproductive labor with kinship, racial hierarchy, and the economics of slavery. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Morgan demonstrates that the development of Western notions of value and race occurred simultaneously. In so doing, she illustrates how racial capitalism denied the enslaved their kinship and affective ties while simultaneously relying on kinship to reproduce and enforce slavery through enslaved female bodies. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Bankers and Empire Peter James Hudson, 2017-04-27 From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis, 2022-08-08 In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what Davis terms “a racial regime of religion” that subjected Algerian Muslims to discriminatory political and economic structures. These experts believed that introducing a market economy would modernize society and discourage anticolonial nationalism. Planners, politicians, and economists implemented reforms that both sought to transform Algerians into modern economic subjects and drew on racial assumptions despite the formally color-blind policies of the French state. Following independence, convictions about the inherent link between religious beliefs and economic behavior continued to influence development policies. Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella embraced a specifically Algerian socialism founded on Islamic principles, while French technocrats saw Algeria as a testing ground for development projects elsewhere in the Global South. Highlighting the entanglements of race and religion, Davis demonstrates that economic orthodoxies helped fashion understandings of national identity on both sides of the Mediterranean during decolonization. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Black Market Aaron Carico, 2020-04-28 On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this value was not destroyed in the war. Slavery still structured social relations and cultural production in the United States more than a century after it was formally abolished. As Aaron Carico reveals in Black Market, slavery's engine of capital accumulation was preserved and transformed, and the slave commodity survived emancipation. Through both archival research and lucid readings of literature, art, and law, from the plight of the Fourteenth Amendment to the myth of the cowboy, Carico breaks open the icons of liberalism to expose the shaping influence of slavery's political economy in America after 1865. Ultimately, Black Market shows how a radically incomplete and fundamentally failed abolition enabled the emergence of a modern nation-state, in which slavery still determined--and now goes on to determine--economic, political, and cultural life. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Black Marxism Cedric J. Robinson, 2005-10-12 In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright. |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Unintended Monica Huerta, 2023-06-06 Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly reshaping the world. The Unintended slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itself—and so the history of racial capitalism—up. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. The book pulls together an archive that encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving photographs are affirmed (or denied) in precedent-setting court cases and legal texts. Emphasizing the making of “expression” into property to focus our attention on the failures of control that cameras do not invent, but rather put new emphasis on, this book argues that designations of control’s absence are central to the practice and idea of property-making. The Unintended proposes that tracking and analyzing the sensed horizons of intention, control, autonomy, will, and volition offers another way into understanding how white supremacy functions. Ultimately, its unique historical reading practice offers a historically-specific vantage on the everyday workings of racial capitalism and the inheritances of white supremacy that structure so much of our lives. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Represent and Destroy Jodi Melamed, 2011-11-15 A stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalisms |
| histories of racial capitalism: Abolition Geography Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2022-05-10 The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present. Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an “anti-state state” that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place. Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Union by Law Michael W. McCann, George I. Lovell, 2020-04-21 Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethnic persecution. In time, though, Filipino workers formed political organizations and affiliated with labor unions to represent their interests and to advance their struggles for class, race, and gender-based social justice. Union by Law analyzes the broader social and legal history of Filipino American workers’ rights-based struggles, culminating in the devastating landmark Supreme Court ruling, Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989). Organized chronologically, the book begins with the US invasion of the Philippines and the imposition of colonial rule at the dawn of the twentieth century. The narrative then follows the migration of Filipino workers to the United States, where they mobilized for many decades within and against the injustices of American racial capitalist empire that the Wards Cove majority willfully ignored in rejecting their longstanding claims. This racial innocence in turn rationalized judicial reconstruction of official civil rights law in ways that significantly increased the obstacles for all workers seeking remedies for institutionalized racism and sexism. A reclamation of a long legacy of racial capitalist domination over Filipinos and other low-wage or unpaid migrant workers, Union by Law also tells a story of noble aspirational struggles for human rights over several generations and of the many ways that law was mobilized both to enforce and to challenge race, class, and gender hierarchy at work. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Cedric Robinson Joshua Myers, 2021-09-03 Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell his story, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson’s work interrogated the foundations of western political thought, modern capitalism, and changing meanings of race. Tracing the course of Robinson’s journey from his early days as an agitator in the 1960s to his publication of such seminal works as Black Marxism, Myers frames Robinson’s mission as aiming to understand and practice opposition to “the terms of order.” In so doing, Robinson excavated the Black Radical tradition as a form of resistance that imagined that life on wholly different terms was possible. In the era of Black Lives Matter, that resistance is as necessary as ever, and Robinson’s contribution only gains in importance. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn more about it. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University rosalind hampton, 2020-05-18 A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Prophet of Discontent Jared A. Loggins, Andrew J. Douglas, 2021-05-15 This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Many of today’s insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial capitalism. They take aim at policing and mass incarceration, the racial partitioning of workplaces and residential communities, the expropriation and underdevelopment of Black populations at home and abroad. Scholars and activists increasingly regard these practices as essential technologies of capital accumulation, evidence that capitalist societies past and present enshrine racial inequality as a matter of course. In Prophet of Discontent, Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins invoke contemporary discourse on racial capitalism in a powerful reassessment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s thinking and legacy. Like today’s organizers, King was more than a dreamer. He knew that his call for a “radical revolution of values” was complicated by the production and circulation of value under capitalism. He knew that the movement to build the beloved community required sophisticated analyses of capitalist imperialism, state violence, and racial formations, as well as unflinching solidarity with the struggles of the Black working class. Shining new light on King’s largely implicit economic and political theories, and expanding appreciation of the Black radical tradition to which he belonged, Douglas and Loggins reconstruct, develop, and carry forward King’s strikingly prescient critique of capitalist society. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Race for Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2019-09-03 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black buyers – as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the end of the 1970s, the nation's first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country. The push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction. |
| histories of racial capitalism: A Man among Other Men Jordanna Matlon, 2022-05-15 A Man among Other Men examines competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African metropolis of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Jordanna Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and value within labor, consumerism, and commodification. Through a broad chronological and transatlantic scope that culminates in a deep ethnography of the livelihoods and lifestyles of men in Abidjan's informal economy, Matlon demonstrates how men's subjectivities are formed in dialectical tension by and through hegemonic ideologies of race and patriarchy. A Man among Other Men provides a theoretically innovative, historically grounded, and empirically rich account of Black masculinity that illuminates the sustained power of imaginaries even as capitalism affords a deficit of material opportunities. Revealed is a story of Black abjection set against the anticipation of male privilege, a story of the long crisis of Black masculinity in racial capitalism. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Unfree Markets Justene Hill Edwards, 2021-04-13 The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising livestock to trade and sell. They exchanged goods with nonslaveholding whites and even sold products to their enslavers. Did these pursuits represent a modicum of freedom in the interstices of slavery, or did they further shackle enslaved people by other means? Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves’ economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people. Hill Edwards demonstrates that as enslavers embraced increasingly capitalist principles, enslaved people slowly lost their economic autonomy. As slaveholders became more profit-oriented in the nineteenth century, they also sought to control enslaved people’s economic behavior and capture the gains. Despite enslaved people’s aptitude for enterprise, their market activities came to be one more part of the violent and exploitative regime that shaped their lives. Drawing on wide-ranging archival research to expand our understanding of racial capitalism, Unfree Markets shows the limits of the connection between economic activity and freedom. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Black Marxism Cedric J. Robinson, 2021-02-04 'A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of Black radical thought' Cornel West 'Cedric Robinson's brilliant analyses revealed new ways of thinking and acting' Angela Davis 'This work is about our people's struggle, the historical Black struggle' Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric Robinson's landmark account of Black radicalism. Marxism is a western construction, and therefore inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as agents of change against 'racial capitalism'. Tracing the emergence of European radicalism, the history of Black African resistance and the influence of these on such key thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James and Richard Wright, Black Marxism reclaims the story of a movement. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Banking on Freedom Shennette Garrett-Scott, 2019-05-07 Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power in contexts shaped by sexism, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. Garrett-Scott chronicles both the bank’s success and the challenges this success wrought, including extralegal violence and aggressive oversight from state actors who saw black economic autonomy as a threat to both democratic capitalism and the social order. The teller cage and boardroom became sites of activism and resistance as the leadership of president Maggie Lena Walker and other women board members kept the bank grounded in meeting the needs of working-class black women. The first book to center black women’s engagement with the elite sectors of banking, finance, and insurance, Banking on Freedom reveals the ways gender, race, and class shaped the meanings of wealth and risk in U.S. capitalism and society. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Civil Rights Unionism Robert R. Korstad, 2003-11-20 Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy. Galvanized by the emergence of the CIO, African Americans took the lead in a campaign that saw a strong labor movement and the reenfranchisement of the southern poor as keys to reforming the South--and a reformed South as central to the survival and expansion of the New Deal. In the window of opportunity opened by World War II, they blurred the boundaries between home and work as they linked civil rights and labor rights in a bid for justice at work and in the public sphere. But civil rights unionism foundered in the maelstrom of the Cold War. Its defeat undermined later efforts by civil rights activists to raise issues of economic equality to the moral high ground occupied by the fight against legalized segregation and, Korstad contends, constrains the prospects for justice and democracy today. |
| histories of racial capitalism: How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society Manning Marable, 2000 An updated edition of Manning Marable's classic--considered one of the best studies of race and class. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Slavery's Capitalism Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman, 2016-07-28 During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery's importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom. Contributors: Edward E. Baptist, Sven Beckert, Daina Ramey Berry, Kathryn Boodry, Alfred L. Brophy, Stephen Chambers, Eric Kimball, John Majewski, Bonnie Martin, Seth Rockman, Daniel B. Rood, Caitlin Rosenthal, Joshua D. Rothman, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Shankman, Craig Steven Wilder. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC Paula C. Austin, 2019-12-10 The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during the 1930s. In contrast to the ways in which young people have been portrayed by researchers, policy makers, law enforcement, and the media, Paula C. Austin draws on previously unstudied archival material to present black poor and working class young people as thinkers, theorists, critics, and commentators as they reckon with the boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city that was also the American emblem of equality. The narratives at the center of this book provide a different understanding of black urban life in the early twentieth century, showing that ordinary people were expert at navigating around the limitations imposed by the District of Columbia’s racially segregated politics. Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC is a fresh take on the New Negro movement, and a vital contribution to the history of race in America. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Violent Order David Correia, Tyler Wall, 2021-08-03 The Nature of Police explores the everyday practices of police and policing as modes of violence in the fabrication of social order. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Race Capitalism Justice Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Walter Johnson, Professor of History and Africana Studies Robin D G Kelley, Robin D. G. Kelley, 2017-01-15 |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Digitally Disposed Seb Franklin, 2021-06-22 Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that are often associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploitation. Reading archival and published material from the cybernetic sciences alongside nineteenth-century accounts of intellectual labor, twentieth-century sociometric experiments, and a range of literary and visual works, The Digitally Disposed locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism. Franklin makes the groundbreaking argument that capital’s apparently spontaneous synthesis of so-called free individuals into productive circuits represents an “informatics of value.” On the one hand, understanding value as an informatic relation helps to explain why capital was able to graft so seamlessly with digitality at a moment in which it required more granular and distributed control over labor—the moment that is often glossed as the age of logistics. On the other hand, because the informatics of value sort populations into positions of higher and lower capacity, value, and status, understanding their relationship to digitality requires that we see the digital as racialized and gendered in pervasive ways. Ultimately, The Digitally Disposed questions the universalizing assumptions that are maintained, remade, and intensified by today’s dominant digital technologies. Vital and far-reaching, The Digitally Disposed reshapes such fundamental concepts as cybernetics, informatics, and digitality. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Contesting Race and Citizenship Camilla Hawthorne, 2022-07-15 Contesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on first-generation immigrants and refugees who traveled from Africa to Italy, there is little scholarship about the experiences of Black people who were born and raised in Italy. Camilla Hawthorne focuses on the ways Italians of African descent have become entangled with processes of redefining the legal, racial, cultural, and economic boundaries of Italy and by extension, of Europe itself. Contesting Race and Citizenship opens discussions of the so-called migrant crisis by focusing on a generation of Black people who, although born or raised in Italy, have been thrust into the same racist, xenophobic political climate as the immigrants and refugees who are arriving in Europe from the African continent. Hawthorne traces not only mobilizations for national citizenship but also the more capacious, transnational Black diasporic possibilities that emerge when activists confront the ethical and political limits of citizenship as a means for securing meaningful, lasting racial justice—possibilities that are based on shared critiques of the racial state and shared histories of racial capitalism and colonialism. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Politics and the English Language George Orwell, 2021-01-01 George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times |
| histories of racial capitalism: The Half Has Never Been Told Edward E Baptist, 2016-10-25 A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Virgin Capital Tami Navarro, 2021-11-01 Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands—St. Croix—has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008–2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially modern industry of financial services and neoliberal development regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning. |
| histories of racial capitalism: Carceral Capitalism Jackie Wang, 2018-02-23 Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police? —from Carceral Capitalism In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society. |
Histories of Racial Capitalism
capitalism literature traces the historical role of white supremacy in the processes of dispossession, extraction, accumulation, and exploitation that are central to today’s capitalism.
HISTORIES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM - De Gruyter
While remaking our material world, capitalism’s myriad forms have altered—and been shaped by—our most fundamental experi- ences of race, gender, sexuality, nation, and citizenship.
HISTORIES o f RACIAL CAPITALISM - Humboldt-Universität zu …
Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism 1 DESTIN JENKINS AND JUSTIN LEROY 1. Race, Innovation, and Financial Growth: The Example of Foreclosure 27 K-SUE PARK 2. Gendering …
Bhattacharyya 2018 rethinking racial capitalism questions of ...
7 Apr 2017 · Racial capitalism describes a set of techniques and a formation, and in both registers the disciplining and ordering of bodies through gender and sexuality and dis/ability and age …
Racial Capitalism - JSTOR
We often associate racial capitalism with the central features of white supremacist capitalist development, including slavery, colonialism, genocide, incarceration regimes, migrant …
Beyond Racial Capitalism - api.pageplace.de
cal theorist Cedric Robinson’s conceptualization of “racial capitalism” in order to bring it into studies of the Black social economy as lived and created through-out the African diaspora. …
Histories of Racial Capitalism - Just Money
It builds on the concept of “racial capitalism,” which rejects treatments of race as external to a purely economic project and counters the idea that racism is an externality, cultural overflow, …
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how the study of racial capitalism in the United States must be situated in the long history of global systems of colonialism, imperialism, and development. With this in mind, the program …
RACE AND CAPITALISM: GLOBAL TERRITORIES, …
DIASPORAS OF RACIAL CAPITALISM, anchored by Nathan Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University. Moderator: Robert Chao Romero, …
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It builds on the concept of “racial capitalism,” which rejects treatments of race as external to a purely economic project and counters the idea that racism is an externality, cultural overflow, …
Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy (eds.), Histories of Racial …
The ascent of racial capitalism, as an analytic, has been closely connected with the renewed interpretation of American slavery as the capitalist enterprise par excellence—an engine of …
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism - The University of Maine
Racial capitalism, in other words, was the continuation of “the social, cultural, political, and ideological complexes of European feudalisms”—that is, its “racial, tribal, linguistic, and …
Racial-Settler Capitalism: Character Building and the …
I first develop the concept of racial-settler capitalism by reading Indigenous perspectives on capitalist development into prevailing conceptions of racial capitalism. Second, I locate the …
The Trap of “Capitalism”, Racial or Otherwise
It is a settler colonial country deriving from British (and other European) colonial projects. Historically, it was organised in terms of a plantation economy whose legacy continues to …
14. African American solidarity economics and distributive justice
Racial capitalism – a system that benefits from exploitation of labour and pitting different racial and ethnic groups and genders against each other ‒ and neoliberal economics exploit Black …
Racial Capitalism and the Grounds of Contradiction - JSTOR
Racial capitalism is a powerful heuristic, one that not only sheds light on the persistence of supremacist phantasmagoria in white identity, but also calls into question the introjection of …
RACIAL CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: COLONIALISM …
These colonial histories are reflective of racial capitalist trajectories that impact current day emissions, consumptive habits, and cli-mate vulnerabilities. Political and economic blockages …
History 2980-21 History of Capitalism Bibliography
highlights the emergence of “racial capitalism” as perhaps the most urgent analytical frame presently. Nearly a century of scholarship organized today under the heading of Black or …
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Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism 1 DESTIN JENKINS AND JUSTIN LEROY 1. Race, Innovation, and Financial Growth: The Example of Foreclosure 27 K-SUE PARK 2. Gendering …
REFLECTIONS ON RACIAL CAPITALISM Nancy Leong
In my article Racial Capitalism,1 I expressed concern about the on-going process of racial exploitation in which white people and predom-inantly white institutions derive value from the …
Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism - SAGE Journals
a global scale, exploring histories of colonial conquest, imperialism, and dispossession to make visible capitalism’s relation to race. Historians have shown how slavery was a transat- ... racial capitalism approach, which is that racial differentiation and capitalism are mutually supportive. Still, the tension in Robinson’s work manifests ...
Accessing racial privilege through property: Geographies of racial ...
While the specic histories of domination differ by location, the effects of racial capitalism are visible in each, particularly through relations of private property. 1. Introduction ... Racial capitalism reinforces white supremacy in settler colonial, post- colonial, and neo-colonial societies. We recognize white privilege in
Global Capitalism and the Anthropocene - University of Cambridge
The origin of capitalism: A longer view. Verso. • Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. Profile Books. • Mumford, L. (2010). Technics and civilization. University of Chicago Press. Week (2) Capitalism and the Anthropocene Core reading • Bonneuil, C., & Fressoz, J ...
Chapter 16 Connecting the ‘posts’ to confront racial capitalism’s ...
Connecting the ‘posts’ to confront racial capitalism’s coloniality: A Conversation Alyosxa Tudor and Piro Rexhepi Abstract This chapter is a conversation on the coloniality of racial capitalism in contemporary post-socialist politics. Specifically, our dialogue examines the contradictions and challenges of the post-socialist
Racial Capitalism in Voltaire’s Enlightenment - PhilPapers
These and other critical histories echo Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s account of the Enlightenment as a dialectical, self-cannibalizing movement, laden ... Analyses of racial capitalism underline the interdependence of race and class, contending that racialization plays a functional role in upholding capitalism.
Racial Capitalism in Voltaire’s Enlightenment
These and other critical histories echo Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s account of the Enlightenment as a dialectical, self-cannibalizing movement, laden ... Analyses of racial capitalism underline the interdependence of race and class, contending that racialization plays a functional role in upholding capitalism.
The urban process under racial capitalism: Race, anti-Blackness, …
economy of racial capitalism and (2) to position capitalism and racism as mutually dependent systems of exploitation. ... With vivid urban histories highlighting the ways in which communities ...
Actually existing racial capitalism: financialisation and bordering …
Racial capitalism's rapid uptake has, at the same time, raised concerns around conceptual overdetermina-tion (Ince, 2022), and led to calls for greater analytical precision to ensure it is more than an ‘activist hermeneu-tic’ (Melamed, 2015)—although value certainly lies in this. As Bhattacharya (2018) stresses, the concept belies real
Racial Banishment - Wiley Online Library
16 Aug 2018 · Racial Banishment Ananya Roy Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ... sonhood which underpins racial capitalism. ... but also the loss of communities and the places and histories they have created. The study of racial banishment has important implications for radical geogra-
The South African Pandemic of Racial Capitalism - ResearchGate
Racial Capitalism MADALITSO ZILILO PHIRI South Africa’s COVID-19 Responses ... talism, entangled with histories of imperial state formation, settler colonial-ism, and a hierarchical global ...
The 2022 World Cup and Migrants’ Rights in Qatar: Racialised …
scholarship on colonialism and racism. Those studies that have reconnected colonial histo-ries of labour production to current labour practices provide nuanced explanations for
Inventing the White Voice : Racial Capitalism, Raciolinguistics
Racial Capitalism, Raciolinguistics & Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies guage and racial capitalism and 2) think through the political, economic, and ped - agogical implications of this new theorizing for Communities of Color. 1 Boots spent the entire day with us. Sporting a tan corduroy jacket and rockin
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler
of racial capitalism beyond the Atlantic frame of slav-ery and eliminativism. Relatedly, juxtaposing the Atlantic and the Asian contexts broaches metho-dological questions about writing comparative or con-nected histories of racial capitalism and developing concepts to …
â A Mad and Melancholy Recordâ : The Crisis of International Law Histories
international law, including its intimate imbrication with histories of racial capitalism over the last four hundred years. How did the crisis of racial capitalism boomerang into the crisis-space of authoritarianism that the world is confronting today? 7. In thinking through this question, I turn to past histories of international law and crisis.
Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping
376 European Journal of International Relations 29(2) volume on Histories of Racial Capitalism: ‘How well does the concept of racial capital- ism travel to various global contexts?’ I take seriously Stuart Hall’s (2019) exhortation to think conjuncturally – grounded in specific times, places, histories, and contexts – (p.
The Deep Roots of Inequity: Coloniality, Racial Capitalism, …
Racial Capitalism, Educational Leadership, and Reform ... People of Color to convey instances of shared histories, experiences, and grievances against White supremacy, as cited historically and in ...
The Trap of “Capitalism”, Racial or Otherwise
the concept of racial capitalism is inadequate as a means to deliver valid social scientific knowledge relevant to the pursuit of justice in any of the ... its difference from Europe isnotunconnected toEurope andits histories. It is a settler colonial country deriving from British (and other European) colonial projects. Historically, it was ...
PalestinianPoliticalEconomy:Enduring …
product of the longer histories, systems, and processes of racial capitalism and settler colonialism that Palestinian elite have colluded with, but that— given configurations of power in occupied Palestine—Israel, the U.S., Europe, regional Arab states, and global business are also responsible. Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial
Capitalism” “Waste and Race: Examining Baltimore City’s Waste ...
31 Dec 2021 · analyze how governance practices have been used throughout time to perpetuate racial capitalism. Racial Capitalism & Racial Liberalism In Cedric Robinson’s “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition,” Robinson argues that capitalism has always been racial. Robinson defines racialism as “the
Border Imperialism, Racial Capitalism, and Geographies of …
Racial Capitalism, and Geographies of Deracination Levi Gahman University of Liverpool Department of Geography and Planning ... thorough their histories.” We further define it as a socio-spatial process of (de)territorialization and forced (dis)location that operates (both externally and internally vis-à-vis a particular state) ...
Indigenous Erasure and Resistance in the Caribbean - University of …
racial capitalism and the coloniality of development in the Caribbean,” Geoforum (2022): 8. 2 Gabrielle Hosein, “Indigenous Geographies and Carib- ... ples erase their histories and deny them their rights to life and land. European colonizers committed genocide against Indige-
Racial capitalism and student debt in the U.S. - ResearchGate
Racial capitalism, education, and the project of Black ... and draws consciously from the histories of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Students for a Democratic Society, the ...
Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism - SAGE …
race/ethnicity, gentrification, racial capitalism, (de)valuation. 174 City & Community 21(3) nor have the ramifications of exposure to gentrification been equal. I use the theory of ... prior life has embedded histories that reflect both the class and racial compositions of the residents and the land’s uses (Dantzler 2021; Korver-Glenn et al ...
Introduction: What Does Racial Capitalism Have to Do With Cities …
that employ racial capitalism to extend, challenge, or refine theories of and methods for understanding cities and communities. In this introduction, we outline urban scholars’ historical explanations of racial inequality and provide an overview of the development and definition(s) of racial capitalism. We then
The 2022 World Cup and Migrants’ Rights in Qatar: Racialised …
scholarship on colonialism and racism. Those studies that have reconnected colonial histo-ries of labour production to current labour practices provide nuanced explanations for
Alienation, Racial Capitalism, and the Racialization of Palestinians
The racial capitalism concept first emerged in the context of the anti-apartheid and South African liberation struggles in the 1970s. People aligned with the Black Consciousness Movement in South
Diversity, media and racial capitalism: a case study on publishing
Diversity, media and racial capitalism: a case study on publishing Anamik Saha & Sandra van Lente To cite this article: Anamik Saha & Sandra van Lente (2022) Diversity, media and racial capitalism: a case study on publishing, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45:16, 216-236, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2032250
The Trap of “Capitalism”, Racial or Otherwise
the concept of racial capitalism is inadequate as a means to deliver valid social scientific knowledge relevant to the pursuit of justice in any of the ... its difference from Europe isnotunconnected toEurope andits histories. It is a settler colonial country deriving from British (and other European) colonial projects. Historically, it was ...
Beyond Racial Capitalism - api.pageplace.de
cal theorist Cedric Robinson’s conceptualization of “racial capitalism” in order to bring it into studies of the Black social economy as lived and created through-out the African diaspora. Contributors place the “Black radical tradition”, simply ... by linking the histories of economic problem-solving and cooperative building in
Racial Capitalism and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar
Racial Capitalism and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar by Jonathan Saha ... being consumed by Atlantic histories.16 Shifting this geographic focus and scale of analysis, racial capitalism is ...
How is capitalism racial? Fanon, critical theory and the fetish of ...
idea has been formulated. Although theories of racial capitalism avoid reducing race to class, they nonetheless approach capitalism primarily as a structure of classes, and therefore still treat the problem of racial capitalism as a problem of relating race and class, albeit nonreductively. This is still a trap. In response, I turn to Fanon (1986)
Manufacturing Inequality: Examining the Racial-Capitalist Logics …
capitalism has been used to understand other social and political processes such as settler colonialism in Palestine and South Africa[7], environmental and climate justice[8],
Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, …
raphies of Indigenous and Black suffering and imbrication in racial capitalism. Sec-tion two provides a relational reading of race, nature, and capitalism, weaving ... others trace the broad and complex histories of indigeneity to examine how the Indigenous is not a political category limited to settler states. Space precludes us
Postscript: Four Ways Race and Capitalism Can Advance Urban …
11 Jun 2022 · just racial capitalism) can be generalized to the globe, the radically diverse histories of urbanization throughout the world raise the need to delineate scope conditions for the racial capitalism framework. Doing so would not make the theory any less valuable given that the term “general” in “general theory”
Racial capitalism, uneven development, and the abstractive
Racial capitalism, anti-Blackness, Black radical tradition, real abstraction, money and finance ... capitalist trajectories and privileging contingent and connected histories. Relatedly, some argue for deploying the methodological principles of uneven …
Racial-Settler Capitalism: Character Building and the Accumulation …
Racial capitalism and settler capitalism are often approached as analytically and temporally distinct processes. Prevailing conceptions of racial capitalism (exemplified by chattel slavery and its legacies) prioritize the devalua-tion of racialized life and the subordination of racialized labor. Theories of settler capitalism, on the other hand ...
Scratches on the wall: racial capitalism, climate finance and Pacific ...
Racial capitalism: relational frameworks and walls Defining racial capitalism is not a straightforward endeavour. Broadly, it is a way of talking ... explicit roots in capitalism, but also in histories of neo-colonialism and development JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ETHICS 3 (Escobar . 1995; 1984). The economies of the Pacific region have been mired in ...
International History and Politics Histories beyond Nation
• Kris Manjapra, ‘Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism’, in Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, ed. American Capitalism: New Histories, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020 • ‘The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their ...
Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy (eds.), Histories of Racial Capitalism ...
Histories of Racial Capitalism is not meant to stand as an authoritative theoretical statement. It is a chronicle of analysis in action, a collection of “genuinely dynamic accounts of the historical relationship between economic relations of exploitation and the racial terms through which they were organized, justified, and contested” (2-3).
Racial capitalism, uneven development, and the abstractive …
Racial capitalism, anti-Blackness, Black radical tradition, real abstraction, money and finance ... capitalist trajectories and privileging contingent and connected histories. Relatedly, some argue for deploying the methodological principles of uneven …
The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism - University of …
of racial capitalism Pavithra Vasudevan University of Texas at Austin, USA Sara Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Abstract In this paper, we analyze the racialized burden of toxicity in the US as a case study of what we call “domestic geopolitics.” Drawing on the case studies of Badin, North Carolina, and Flint,
Life s continuation: repro-tech, biogenetic affinity, and racial capitalism
the disparities of racial capitalism. Keywords Race · Value · Property · Racial capitalism · ARTs Regardless of how technology has freed us . . . [w]e still have the messy nucleus of procreation’s racial order to contend with. —Holland (2012) Racist structures not only produce, but reproduce whiteness, by resuscitating
A Critical Understanding of Inclusion in Oral Microbiome Research ...
1 Mar 2024 · Racial capitalism is a set of techniques and a social arrangement that relies on division, othering, and exclu-sion to extract social and economic value. That is, it is a ... human histories and their living conditions (Dewhirst et al., 2010; Delgado and Baedke, 2021).
RACE AND CAPITALISM: GLOBAL TERRITORIES, TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES
DIASPORAS OF RACIAL CAPITALISM, anchored by : Nathan Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate ... RACE, CAPITALISM, AND SETTLER-COLONIALISM, anchored by : Alyosha Goldstein, Associate Professor of ... GLOBAL TERRITORIES, TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES: Friday, October 20, 2017 Conference Room 2355, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA:
Intellectual Histories of Global Capitalism - June Program
racialization” can offer a more precise concept than “racial capitalism” for capturing the historical intersection of race and capital across transimperial spaces. Andrew Liu (Villanova University), “Industrious and Flexible: On the New History of East Asian Capitalism and the Old History of Flexible Accumulation”
What is racial capitalism? - sjiportalproject.com
Racial Capitalism at UC Davis and click on the link for “What is racial capitalism?” and you arrive at a blank page. The scholars who use the term agree that it refers to the mutual dependence of capitalism and racism. Walter Johnson writes that racial capitalism is “a …
Race and Space in the Postcolony: A Relational Study on Urban …
racial capitalism. Early works in urban sociology underscore the color line in producing differentiation in capitalist development. But color-blind analyses of capitalism have undermined the role of race ... the histories of racial slavery and colonialism that shaped the modern world (da Silva 2019; Hartman 1997; Pulido 2016b). This article
Gender History, Global History, and Atlantic Slavery
On Racial Capitalism and Social Reproduction As an eleven-year-old child in the 1750s, Olaudah Equiano and his sister were captured and sold into slavery. “When all our people were gone out to their works as usual,” he ... Christine Desan, American Capitalism: New Histories (New York, 2018); Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman,
Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health ...
Racial capitalism and global health. Like settler colonialism, racial capitalism contributes to . the formation and evolution of race because “violent dispossessions inherent to capital accumulation operate by creating, leveraging, and intensifying racial distinctions”. 28. Among the many important insights from racial capitalism is that ...
Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler ...
Building on this momentum, racial capitalism is fast becoming a key analytical lens in critical human geography. In Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson (2000) drew on W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James, and ...
