... of the racial contract. Nowhere is this more visible than in the mining industry that birthed Johannesburg. South African mining epitomized racial capitalism (a concept that first took root among anti-apartheid activists) and its central role in the Anthropocene. The relentless pursuit of profit and privilege...

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..., is a central, irreducible feature of U.S. history and society. Economic, political, and social forces give rise to race and racial meanings, and in turn race and racial meanings influence those economic, political, and social forces. racial formation racial contract whiteness critical theory critical...

... Racial formation theory arose as a critique of US sociology’s ethnicity-, nation-, and class-based models that slight race. Instead, the theory holds, race is a central, irreducible element of social relations that implicate social, economic, and political meanings and practices. Racial...

... This chapter examines the transformations in labor after abolition. It first examines the racial and economic reasons why Antigua, unlike most other British Caribbean colonies, decided to forego the four-year apprenticeship scheme devised to keep enslaved people in a liminal, subservient...

... of the nation. These communities reflected a traditional, hierarchical system of castes. While the new enclosures destabilized many agrarian communities through the contraction and privatization of vast tracts of communally held and managed lands, they also produced new distinctions between racialized farm...

...Encoding Race This chapter uses political cartoons and ethnographic interviews to document the racialized depiction of Indian IT workers. These sources show the multifaceted nature of the discussion of race in public. Indian programmers are ambivalent subjects between Turkish guest workers...

... a Nuyorican cultural aesthetic through which diasporic Puerto Rican abjection became the site for the performance of racialized, masculinist subjecthood. Rather than recoiling from narratives of Puerto Ricans as racially, culturally, and linguistically corrupt, Colón and LaVoe’s personas as salsa’s “bad boys...

... conflicts after 2000 were marked by sharp polarization based on regional, ethnic and racial, and class identities. Racialization, in particular, heightened tensions between opposing groups and raised the stakes for the outbreak of violence. If during his first inauguration, in 2006, Evo Morales made...

... contracts are stepping-stones to both individual and national self-determination. As such, the critique of migration regimes by diasporic Indian programmers is muted by the discourse of technoelite success through individual achievement to which they also subscribe. national identity India software...