Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism 1
5. 1. Race, Innovation, and Financial Growth: The Example of Foreclosure 27
6. 2. Gendering Racial Capitalism and the Black Heretical Tradition 53
7. 3. The Indebted Among the “Free”: Producing Indian Labor Through the Layers of Racial Capitalism 85
8. 4. Transpacific Migration, Racial Surplus, and Colonial Settlement 111
9. 5. The Counterrevolution of Property Along the 32nd Parallel 135
10. 6. Racial Capitalism and Black Philosophies of History 169
11. 7. Ghosts of the Past: Debt, the New South, and the Propaganda of History 185
12. 8. Dead Labor: On Racial Capital and Fossil Capital 215
13. 9. “They Speak Our Language . . . Business”: Latinx Businesspeople and the Pursuit of Wealth in New York City 231
14. Contributors 251
15. Acknowledgments 253
16. Index 255