Histories of Racial Capitalism / / ed. by Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Harris, Angela P.,; Jenkins, Destin,; Jobson, Ryan Cecil,; Karuka, Manu,; Khan, Mishal,; Leroy, Justin,; Lumba, Allan E. S.,; Park, K-Sue,; Regalado, Pedro A.,; Sweeney, Shauna J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Jenkins, Destin,; Leroy, Justin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 5 b&w photographs and graphs

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism -- 1. Race, Innovation, and Financial Growth: The Example of Foreclosure -- 2. Gendering Racial Capitalism and the Black Heretical Tradition -- 3. The Indebted Among the “Free”: Producing Indian Labor Through the Layers of Racial Capitalism -- 4. Transpacific Migration, Racial Surplus, and Colonial Settlement -- 5. The Counterrevolution of Property Along the 32nd Parallel -- 6. Racial Capitalism and Black Philosophies of History -- 7. Ghosts of the Past: Debt, the New South, and the Propaganda of History -- 8. Dead Labor: On Racial Capital and Fossil Capital -- 9. “They Speak Our Language . . . Business”: Latinx Businesspeople and the Pursuit of Wealth in New York City -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index