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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism.
Trade Review“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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 LeBrón 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
