Colonial Racial Capitalism

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction / Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd and Brian Jordan Jefferson  1
I. Accumulation: Development by Dispossession
1. The Corporation and the Tribe / Joanne Barker  33
2. “In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal”: The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement / Alyosha Goldstein  60
3. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery / Cheryl I. Harris  88
II. Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence
4. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang  131
5. “Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed  159
6. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrón  206
7. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson  232
III. Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory
8. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure / Iyko Day  257
9. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido  284
IV. Rehearsing for the Future
10. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Facilitated by Brian Jordan Jefferson and Jodi Melamed  311
Contributors  333
Index  337