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The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider
anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside
the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development
of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the
co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from
the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to
contemporary financial capitalism. Among other topics, the essays
explore the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to
debt, the violence of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada
and the Belgian Congo, how municipal property assessment and waste
management software encodes and produces racial difference, how
Puerto Rican police crackdowns on protestors in 2010 and 2011 drew
on decades of policing racially and economically marginalized
people, and how historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the
Mexican-American War in ways that occlude the war's imperialist
groundings. The volume's analytic of colonial racial capitalism
opens new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence,
precarity, and inequality in modern society. Contributors. Joanne
Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Lisa Marie Cacho, Michael Dawson, Iyko Day,
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alyosha Goldstein, Cheryl I. Harris, Kimberly
Kay Hoang, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Susan Koshy, Marisol LeBron,
Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido
The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider
anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside
the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development
of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the
co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from
the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to
contemporary financial capitalism. Among other topics, the essays
explore the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to
debt, the violence of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada
and the Belgian Congo, how municipal property assessment and waste
management software encodes and produces racial difference, how
Puerto Rican police crackdowns on protestors in 2010 and 2011 drew
on decades of policing racially and economically marginalized
people, and how historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the
Mexican-American War in ways that occlude the war's imperialist
groundings. The volume's analytic of colonial racial capitalism
opens new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence,
precarity, and inequality in modern society. Contributors. Joanne
Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Lisa Marie Cacho, Michael Dawson, Iyko Day,
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alyosha Goldstein, Cheryl I. Harris, Kimberly
Kay Hoang, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Susan Koshy, Marisol LeBron,
Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the
world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in
which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit
of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as
transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within
U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire
expands itself through a transferable "Indianness" that facilitates
acquisitions of lands, territories, and resources. Examining an
array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending
legislations-from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's vote in 2007 to
expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government
Reorganization bill-Byrd demonstrates that inclusion into the
multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported
to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization
that feeds U.S. empire. Byrd contends that the colonization of
American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground from
which to reimagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples
are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where indigenous
peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on
their own terms.
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