Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I Accumulation: development by dispossession
6. One.The Corporation and the Tribe 33
7. Two. “In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal”: The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement 60
8. Three. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery 88
9. II Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence
10. Four. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies 131
11. Five. “Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders 159
12. Six. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico 206
13. Seven. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities 232
14. III Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory
15. Eight. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure 257
16. Nine. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles 284
17. IV Rehearsing for the Future
18. Ten. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore 311
19. Contributors 333
20. Index 337