Histories of Racial Capitalism

Histories of Racial Capitalism is a stunning compilation of stellar original historical work that analyzes the co-constitutive dynamics of systems of global racial subordination and the capitalist social order. This volume will be required reading for a generation of scholars and activists.

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Destin Jenkins is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (2021).

Justin Leroy is assistant professor of history and codirector of the Mellon Research Initiative on Racial Capitalism at the University of California, Davis.

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This book brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept of racial capitalism across historical settings. By theorizing and testing racial capitalism in different circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today's scholars and activists.

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Foreword, by Angela P. Harris
Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism, by Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy

1. Race, Innovation, and Financial Growth: The Example of Foreclosure, by K-Sue Park
2. Gendering Racial Capitalism and the Black Heretical Tradition, by Shauna J. Sweeney
3. The Indebted Among the Free: Producing Indian Labor through the Layers of Racial Capitalism, by Mishal Khan
4. Transpacific Migration, Racial Surplus, and Colonial Settlement, by Allan E. S. Lumba
5. The Counterrevolution of Property Along the 32nd Parallel, by Manu Karuka
6. Racial Capitalism and Black Philosophies of History, by Justin Leroy
7. Ghosts of the Past: Debt, the New South, and the Propaganda of History, by Destin Jenkins
8. Dead Labor: On Racial Capital and Fossil Capital, by Ryan Cecil Jobson
9. They Speak Our Language . . . Business: Latinx Businesspeople and the Pursuit of Wealth in New York City, by Pedro A. Regalado
   Contributors
   Acknowledgments
   Index