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Spring 2019

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
 

Forum: How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

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The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.

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Donna Murch

We need a broad-based, anti-racist campaign.

Donna Murch

The Sackler family is finally facing consequences.

L.A. Kauffman

Racial capitalism involves more than a capitalistic system built on racial oppression.

Jonathan Kahn

There is a gendered dimension to “getting tough.”

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

We must consider the explosion of the reckless “rehab” industry, too.

Michael Collins

Big Pharma’s constructed racial capital endures in the U.S. response.

Helena Hansen, Julie Netherland, and David Herzberg

The history of BiDil adds one more twist to the story Murch exposes.

Britt Rusert

The nineteenth-century had regimes of racial narco-capitalism too.

Max Mishler

Essays

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How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

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
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Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism

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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Succeeding While Black

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
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The Harvard Ruling Misses the Point

Elitism can't be democratized.

Richard Ford

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