Tag: Racism

Capitalism

Speculating on Race

Samantha Iyer warns against the romanticization of the age of the welfare state, arguing that the policies of those decades were a historical basis—rather than an alternative—to today’s landscape of racial exclusion.

art

The Rabble and the Door

Steve Edwards on the semiotics of the invasion: “one set of supremacist fantasies faced off against another imaginary order.”

Vintage television set against a checked wallpaper background
Anti-capitalism

What’s New about Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Enzo Rossi explain how “woke” racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.

abolition

Materializing Race

Jack Norton and David Stein respond to John Clegg and Adaner Usmani’s argument that mass incarceration isn’t about racism. Norton and Stein demonstrate that Clegg and Usmani are both conceptually misguided and empirically wrong.

Anti-racism

Unfixing South Asian Identity

Drawing upon autobiographical reflections, JS Titus explores the class stratification of South Asians in the United Kingdom. Titus argues that class and oppression, rather than idealized identities, must be the basis of forging solidarity today.

Anti-racism

Minneapolis in Paris

Drawing on ethnographic work on antiracist struggles in France, Jean Beaman makes the case for internationalizing Black Lives Matter.

Anti-racism

American Carnage

Nicholas De Genova argues that, rather than being an aberration, police racism is constitutive of a system of white supremacy embodied in state power.

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