Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis

Antiwork or antimaster? Reframing the antiwork movement through a racial lens

“…• Organizations should engage in regular auditing of existing policies and procedures to identify and eliminate discriminatory practices (tenet 9; tenet 10). Social groups are defined by the unequal distribution of resources in capitalist societies, creating hierarchies that advance capitalism via disparity, creating disadvantages and divides among and within racial groups (Fortner, 2023;Robinson, 2000). 17.…”

Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market

“…Residential segregation, housing discrimination, displacement, and evictions (often in the context of gentrification processes and high-end development projects), limited locational options for housing, and unequal housing opportunities (and burdens) are mechanisms of racial capitalism. They result in profit extraction and greater exploitation of racialized residents (Crowell, 2022;Fortner, 2023;Rucks-Ahidiana, 2022;Shabazz, 2015).…”

“…The concept of racial capitalism has become more prominent in urban and migration studies in recent years. Urban scholars, including Danewid (2020), Rucks-Ahidiana (2021), and Fortner (2023), apply racial capitalism to explain that urban development and urban policymaking are rooted in constructions of race, racialization, and differentiation, and that “urban processes produce and maintain race-based pursuits of profit” (Dantzler et al., 2022: 168). Similarly, migration and refugee researchers such as Frydenlund and Dunn (2022), Bhagat (2022), and Gutiérrez Rodríguez (2018) reveal that migrant movements and lives are regulated in the service of racial capitalism through racialization processes and violent and restrictive border and migration regimes with the aim of fixing and governing (over)accumulation and migrants as relative surplus populations.…”