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Alfredo Gonzalez’s “Logics of Race and Capitalism” reveals that from 1926 to 1940, military service did not guarantee citizenship due to Congressional delays, perpetuating racial inequality.
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#Citizenship #Naturalization #RacialCapitalism

Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations | Polity: Vol 58, No 1 When the US exchanges citizenship rights for military service it is working within a political economy of time, where time is the medium of exchange. This paper argues that military naturalizations in...

In "Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time," Alfredo Gonzalez shows that Congress deliberately delays non-citizen service members' naturalization, reinforcing racialized inequality. Read it now: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#Citizenship #RacialCapitalism #PoliSky

Immigrants aren’t the threat.
Fear is the weapon.
Exploitation is the business model.
#RacialCapitalism #ICE #Immigrants #HumanRights #BittaTruth

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From slave patrol ships to “drug war” strikes. Same ocean. Same logic: non-white humans are expendable for the comfort of power. #BloodInOurWaters #EmpireInDecline #CaribbeanLivesMatter #TrumpDrugWarLie #StopTheKilling #RacialCapitalism #WarCrimesAtSea
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Whiteness didn’t endure because Black folks “fulfilled a prophecy.” It endured because white identity was built on dominion, status, and the pleasure of hierarchy. Change the lens and the whole story clarifies. #RacialCapitalism #DuBoisDecoded

How do tax holidays, finance, and colonial legacies intersect in the contemporary Caribbean? VIRGIN CAPITAL probes the U.S. Virgin Islands’ EDC and the racialized, gendered hierarchies baked into neoliberal “development.”

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Highly recommended for strategy & history!
#marx #stuarthall #racialcapitalism #class #race #armsembargonow #transrights #abolishice #mamdani
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Racial slavery in Virginia wasn’t economic—it was political. After Bacon’s Rebellion, elites invented whiteness to split poor whites from Black laborers. Chattel slavery wasn’t about labor; it was about control. #Reparations #RacialCapitalism

A “Slave Route” sign, no story attached—just rust and silence. Cane still towers, wealth still echoes. The horror that built empires gets a plaque instead of repentance. Memory without reckoning is complicity. #HistoryMatters #RacialCapitalism

A $130M “gift” to pay troops—while Mellon’s own words blame Black people for inequality. Power writes checks; prejudice writes the footnote. Public budgets aren’t a billionaire’s hobby. #Accountability #RacialCapitalism

Barbados’s sugar wealth sweetened Britain’s empire and brutalized the world. Capitalism’s engine was milled in cane and chained flesh. Empire tasted like sugar and ran on iron. #RacialCapitalism #Barbados

São Tomé: racial capitalism's erased blueprint. Its slave-plantation complex, perfected early, fueled 400 years of North Atlantic wealth. No markers exist; this silence maintains the myth of earned wealth, obscuring extraction. #RacialCapitalism #SaoTome

Sanctioned Discrimination: #AsylumSeekers and the UK's #HostileEnvironment

Author: Catherine Donaldson

University of Sussex

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#racialcapitalism #migrationstatus

The Long Arc of #Fascism Teach-in | Panel 2: Fascism as Capitalist Counter Revolution
"[T]he second panel turned to the present, mapping how fascism re-emerges as a reactionary force defending #racialCapitalism and elit...
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As a result, the processes of #biomedicalization that stratify access to new treatments and enable the extraction of value from Black bodies in the name of innovation are obfuscated. To make this claim, we buil on theories of #racialcapitalism, #racialization, and #Blackbioethics.

Integrating a Racial Capitalism Framework Into First-Year Contracts: A Pathway to Anti-Capitalist Lawyering (Excerpt) Nationwide protests against police brutality in the summer of 2020, coupled with the high rates of COVID-19 deaths among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), has brought to the fo...

To introduce law students to the theory of racial capitalism, you can assign my article. #legaleducation #privatelaw #race #racialcapitalism #contracts scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/jcred/vol35/...

Now available. Hierarchies at Work: Race, World-Systems, and Legal Distribution. Edited by Karen Engle and Neville Hoad. It includes a blurb from Craig Calhoun. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! HIERARCHIES AT WORK challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work. It offers resources to spur more just futures across local and global levels. buff.ly/kDFAx8I #Law #Inequality #FutureofWork #RacialCapitalism #WorldSystems #Distribution

Access is not the Aim: The Violent Exclusion and Hazardous Inclusion of Immigrant Health Care

Author: Anthony M. Jimenez

Rochester Institute of Technology

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#RacializedLegalStatus #AffordableCareAct #RacialCapitalism #UniversalHealthCare

Reclaiming Human Services: Confronting Racial Capitalism with Faith, Justice, and Courage What if the systems designed to help us are also built to exploit us? What if the systems designed to help us are also built to exploit us?This uncomfortable question lies at the heart of today’s human services profession. From child welfare to healthcare to housing, these systems are meant to provide care, stability, and empowerment. But increasingly, scholars and practitioners alike are sounding the alarm: …

Human services were built to help. But they’re often entangled in racial capitalism.
My latest blog explores this intersection—and what Christian professionals can do about it.
✝️✊🏾 Let’s build systems that liberate.
#RacialCapitalism #FaithAndJustice #HumanServices #ChristianFeminism #Micah6v8

The political economy of racism still thrives
It evolved from shackles to debt, from whip to wage.
Garvey warned us
Nanny fought it
It’s still here!
#DecolonizeNow #RacialCapitalism #CoromanteeWisdom
#BlackFreedomStruggle #GarveySpeaks #AfroCaribVybz
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Marcus Garvey's Pan-Africanism As Modern Maroon Philosophy! Abeng Afrocaribbean Riddims Newsmagazine #AfroCaribVybz, July 10, 2025 .

#BlackFreedomStruggle #GarveySpeaks
The political economy of racism still thrives.
It evolved from shackles to debt, from whip to wage.
Garvey warned us.
Nanny fought it.
It’s still here.
#DecolonizeNow #RacialCapitalism #CoromanteeWisdom
#AfroCaribVybz #BlackVoices
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Economist and Professor Clara Mattei discusses the work of CHE at the University of Tulsa and the increasing #inequality in the US with @profwolff.bsky.social on #EconomicUpdate! #capitalism #economics #politics #labor #racialcapitalism #class #work #workers

The media isn’t failing us.
It’s doing exactly what it was built to do:
🔻 Distract us
🔻 Protect the powerful
🔻 Normalize injustice
#FreePalestine #CongoIsBleeding #SudanConflict #Decolonize #AbolishImperialism #RacialCapitalism #EgalitarianAF #GlobalSolidarity #IndependentMedia #ThePeopleAreWakingUp

Racism is integral in capitalism, It’s a core part of its hierarchical design. Extraction needs hierarchy. Policing needs targets. Profit needs human sorting. Every inequity is by design.
#RacialCapitalism #AbolishTheState #ClassAndRace #ColonialContinuity

Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network

Listen - Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

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Planters weaponized difference. Gave Irish better food, less whipping, paths to property. Gave Africans chains, whips, erasure. Then watched them fight each other.
Divide and conquer wasn’t just a tactic—it was policy.
Hierarchy was the profit model. #RacialCapitalism

Irish labored under 5–7 year contracts. Africans were chattel—property for life. Irish could leave. Africans couldn’t. Irish kids were born free. Black babies were born in chains, branded, bred, and sold like cattle. Stop the lie. Study the system. Honor the truth.
#MythBusting #RacialCapitalism