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Histories of Racial Capitalism
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2021
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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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Destin Jenkins is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
Justin Leroy is assistant professor of history and codirector of the Mellon Research Initiative on Racial Capitalism at the University of California, Davis.
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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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University:
Jenkins and Leroy have amassed an erudite and rigorous collection of essays that flesh out the meaning of racial capitalism in ways that are surprising and illuminating, and will extend a desperately needed debate.
Jenkins and Leroy have amassed an erudite and rigorous collection of essays that flesh out the meaning of racial capitalism in ways that are surprising and illuminating, and will extend a desperately needed debate.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Foreword
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Introduction: The Old History of Capitalism
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1. Race, Innovation, and Financial Growth: The Example of Foreclosure
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2. Gendering Racial Capitalism and the Black Heretical Tradition
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3. The Indebted Among the “Free”: Producing Indian Labor Through the Layers of Racial Capitalism
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4. Transpacific Migration, Racial Surplus, and Colonial Settlement
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5. The Counterrevolution of Property Along the 32nd Parallel
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6. Racial Capitalism and Black Philosophies of History
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7. Ghosts of the Past: Debt, the New South, and the Propaganda of History
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8. Dead Labor: On Racial Capital and Fossil Capital
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9. “They Speak Our Language . . . Business”: Latinx Businesspeople and the Pursuit of Wealth in New York City
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Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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February 8, 2021
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9780231549103
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