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Racist Logic

This issue explores how racism operates even in supposedly colorblind places, from Big Pharma to global surrogacy and banking.

 

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Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

 

Essays

The expansion of banks such as Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and racial lines.

Peter James Hudson

A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth. 

Jordanna Matlon
Alys Eve Weinbaum

Reproducing Racial Capitalism

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Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Elitism can't be democratized.

Richard Ford

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