Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism

Burden-Stelly, Charisse

doi:10.14452/mr-072-03-2020-07_2

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“…It also reveals anti-Blackness and antiradicalism as mutually constitutive legitimating architectures that help maintain and reproduce the race-based pursuit of profit. Furthermore, theorizing modern U.S. racial capitalism offers an epistemological intervention by drawing on the knowledge, worldview, and critical interpretation of Black anticapitalists who understand the integral relationship between capitalist accumulation, racial hierarchy, perpetual war, imperialism, expropriation, and superexploitation (Burden-Stelly, 2020).…”

Section: Conceptual Framementioning

confidence: 99%

The Long Afterlife of Slavery in Asset Stripping, Historical Memory, and Family Burden: Toward a Third Reconstruction

Fergus

Shanks

2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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For African Americans in particular, the question of financial capability and asset building is as old as Black freedom. Through conceptual frames such as racial capitalism, historical memory, and the family stress model, this article examines the many false starts since Reconstruction in which expectations were raised, but then hopes subsequently dashed when reality produced outcomes that kept tangible economic progress just out of reach of Black families.

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The Long Afterlife of Slavery in Asset Stripping, Historical Memory, and Family Burden: Toward a Third Reconstruction

Fergus

Shanks

2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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“…Within a racial capitalist system, Black bodies and Black communities are deemed worthless and disposable (Burden-Stelly, 2020;Pulido, 2016). Black political will is specifically treated as counter to the goals of capital accumulation (Pulido, 2016).…”

Section: The Hydrosocial Cycle Metabolism and Citizenshipmentioning

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Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Carrera

2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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Detroit is in the midst of a contemporary urban renewal project that is being carried out through speculative investment and green gentrification.  Unlike the active infrastructural violence of the past that was implemented by building freeways through neighborhoods, the displacement of residents is happening through discursive and political means that leave residents with few options for remaining in the city.  In this paper, I explore how resource management, particularly water and wastewater infrastructure, has been used to degrade the political efficacy of Detroit residents.   Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis of news articles and government reports, I argue that in recent years the city of Detroit has developed a wasting economy.  This political-economic-environmental structure relies on the coupling of deconstructive and constructive processes that promote the withering of citizenship in order to make way for radical transformation in the use of the cityscape.

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“…In writing on racial capitalism in the United States, Burden‐Stelly (2020) reasons that Blackness ‘is a capacious category of surplus value extraction essential to an array of political‐economic functions’ that reproduce material inequalities surrounding wealth and power. Put another way, the construction of race serves specific economic, material purposes that structure unjust development.…”

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Racial capitalism and the sea: Development and change in Black maritime labour, and what it means for fisheries and a blue economy

Clark

2022

Fish and Fisheries

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The ‘Blue Economy’ is often framed as a revolutionary and transformative approach to marine and fishery development. However, scholars increasingly critique the Blue Economy in hopes that equity‐related concerns can become more prevalent. While these efforts are important, historical materialist perspectives can more deeply challenge the assumptions and limits of economistic thinking. In that vein, Racial Capitalism posits that capitalist markets promote, solidify and rely on racial hierarchy to secure differential value accumulation. This study applies a Racial Capitalist analysis to illustrate how the expansion of capitalist social relations corresponded the re‐solidification of white supremacy to (re)produce systemic inequality in Black maritime labour, and specifically fisheries labour, on the U.S. eastern seaboard. In this case, which occurred across several states and in a critically important marine‐fishery system, the expansion of market relations corresponded with labour exploitation, naturalization of hierarchy and inequitable distribution of socioeconomic harm for Black workers. I identify three lessons from this case that Blue Economy and fisheries scholars should heed; specifically, be wary of market utopianism, technological innovation is not inherently progressive, and systemic exploitation still matters.

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Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism

Cited by 68 publications

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The Long Afterlife of Slavery in Asset Stripping, Historical Memory, and Family Burden: Toward a Third Reconstruction

The Long Afterlife of Slavery in Asset Stripping, Historical Memory, and Family Burden: Toward a Third Reconstruction

Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Racial capitalism and the sea: Development and change in Black maritime labour, and what it means for fisheries and a blue economy

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