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Winter 2017

Race Capitalism Justice

Inspired by the Black radical tradition and the idea of racial capitalism, this issue explores why any vision of justice must grapple with the history of slavery.

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Introduction

Robin D. G. Kelley

What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?

A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America.

  • January 12, 2017

Forum: To Remake the World

Opening

How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice.

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Walter Johnson

Going beyond liberal notions of justice.

Walter Johnson

We need a restoration of historical thinking.

N. D. B. Connolly

Humanity forms the beating heart of black liberation struggles.

Peniel Joseph

The political ideology of slaveholders depended on liberal humanism.

Andrew Zimmerman

The enslaved human should be central to our analysis of commodity form.

Stephanie Smallwood

Some future version of human rights might escape its current limitations.

Samuel Moyn

To dismiss human rights is to ignore black liberation struggles.

Manisha Sinha

Racial capitalism has a lineage that predates Cedric Robinson.

Peter James Hudson

Human rights can be allies in the fight for human justice.

Roberto Gargarella

Marx is thoroughly and consistently humanist.

Peter Linebaugh

Racial capitalism brings us back to the idea of dehumanization.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

This is a powerful alternative to the myth of post-racialism.

Donna Murch

Essays and Poetry

Robin D. G. Kelley

Births of a Nation, Redux

Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson

  • November 5, 2020
Poetry
Reginald Dwayne Betts

Triptych

But for is always game.
A man can be murdered 
twice, but for science, 
his body a pool of blood 
  • August 10, 2017
Daniel Borzutzky

Lake Michigan, Scene 22

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Dawn Lundy Martin

From Good Stock / Strange Blood

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Chris Nealon

White Meadows

There are no meadows in the mind of the oppressed.
  • March 20, 2017

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