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Colonial Racial Capitalism

Colonial Racial Capitalism

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Colonial Racial Capitalism explores the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World to contemporary financial capitalism, examining topics such as Blackness, debt, uranium mining, property assessment, waste management software, police crackdowns, and historic sites.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press


Colonial Racial Capitalism is a comprehensive examination of the complex web of factors that have shaped the history and present-day reality of marginalized communities around the world. The contributors to this book explore the intersection of anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor with the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate how slavery and colonialism have been co-constituted and entangled throughout different historical periods, from the conquest of the New World to the emergence of industrial capitalism and contemporary financial capitalism.

The essays in this collection delve into a range of topics, including the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to debt, the devastating impact of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada and the Belgian Congo, the encoding and production of racial difference through municipal property assessment and waste management software, the policing practices that target racially and economically marginalized communities, and the ways in which historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the Mexican-American War in ways that obscure its imperialist underpinnings.

Through their analytic lens, the contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism offer new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence, precarity, and inequality in modern society. They challenge traditional narratives and provide a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the complex factors that contribute to these social ills. This book is a valuable resource for scholars, activists, and anyone interested in exploring the intersection of race, power, and inequality in global history.

Weight: 635g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478016106

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