Colonial Racial Capitalism
Published on 23. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-4780-1874-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 LeBrOn, Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido
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 LeBrOn, Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido
Reviews / Votes
"Throughout the chapters of [Colonial Racial Capitalism] the authors demonstrate the numerous ways everyday people have refused to become subsumed by these oppressive relationships, resulting in a work that does not merely 'recite the horrors' of a colonial racial capitalism, but offers insights into alternative means of living and relating to one another." - Kendall Artz (Ethnic and Racial Studies) "[T]his volume represents an exciting reworking of anti-capitalist critique as it offers a historical materialist methodology deeply informed by both Black radical and decolonial thought." - Andrew Hamilton (Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
17 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-1874-2 (9781478018742)
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Susan Koshy | Lisa Marie Cacho | Jodi A. Byrd
Colonial Racial Capitalism
E-Book
08/2022
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€208.99
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Persons
Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia.
Jodi A. Byrd is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University.
Brian Jordan Jefferson is Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia.
Jodi A. Byrd is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University.
Brian Jordan Jefferson is Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd and Brian Jordan Jefferson 1
I. Accumulation: Development by Dispossession
1. The Corporation and the Tribe / Joanne Barker 33
2. "In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal": The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement / Alyosha Goldstein 60
3. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery / Cheryl I. Harris 88
II. Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence
4. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang 131
5. "Don't Arrest Me, Arrest the Police": Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed 159
6. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrOn 206
7. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson 232
III. Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory
8. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure / Iyko Day 257
9. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido 284
IV. Rehearsing for the Future
10. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Facilitated by Brian Jordan Jefferson and Jodi Melamed 311
Contributors 333
Index 337
Introduction / Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd and Brian Jordan Jefferson 1
I. Accumulation: Development by Dispossession
1. The Corporation and the Tribe / Joanne Barker 33
2. "In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal": The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement / Alyosha Goldstein 60
3. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery / Cheryl I. Harris 88
II. Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence
4. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang 131
5. "Don't Arrest Me, Arrest the Police": Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed 159
6. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrOn 206
7. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson 232
III. Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory
8. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure / Iyko Day 257
9. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido 284
IV. Rehearsing for the Future
10. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Facilitated by Brian Jordan Jefferson and Jodi Melamed 311
Contributors 333
Index 337