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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Jennifer L. Morgan; Alys Eve Weinbaum Abstract This essay introduces the special issue with a critique of Cedric Robinson’s heuristic, “racial capitalism,” and a discussion of our titular intervention: “reproductive racial capitalism.” The essay is necessarily grounded in the reproductive crisis...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Abstract This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article...
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Becoming “Welfare Island”: Reproductive Labor and Racial Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and fugitivity. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 enslavement racial capitalism social reproductive labor welfare Puerto Rico We all know the welfare queen. She is the figure of grievance of a transnational right wing that wants to pretend impoverished...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Alys Eve Weinbaum Abstract This article theorizes the reproductive dimensions of racial capitalism. It begins by bringing into conversation Black Marxist theories of racial capitalism and Marxist feminist theories of social and biological reproduction proffered by Cedric Robinson and Silvia...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... “intimacies” and reproductive afterlives of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in Israel/Palestine. The article argues that surrogacy operates both as a demographic frontier in the consolidation of a Jewish state in Israel/Palestine and as a commodity frontier for the accumulation of capital...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Rickie Solinger Abstract This autobiographical essay sets up a white middle-class young woman’s emergence as a rights-bearing, choice-making exemplar of sexual freedom and as a holder of intimate racial capital in the 1970s. At the same time, elites and various professional authorities were re...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... definitions of labor and value and hint at how Black women theorized a world beyond racial capitalism. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 reproduction injury value slavery emancipation In June of 1773 a thirty-five-year-old woman named...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... In a sense, then, this essay directs its argument at a problem of ideology which is expressed as a problem of scale; it is a stubborn frame for this history that is deep-seated and that occludes the transformations and the durability of the political economy of slave racial capitalism in America after...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... colonial racial capitalism). What does progress toward a singular future represent or make (im)possible that the current futures seek to displace or overcome? I want to pose the present turn to futurity as one reliant on a redemption of past and continuing struggles against capitalist time...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... instancesofwhat anthropologist Stephan Palmie, in his study ofAfro Cuban religion, has termed "Atlantic modernity: For Palmie, modernity is not just, and not even primarily, the globalizing framework of empire and racial capitalism. Rather, and most importantly, modernity is the variety of plebeian movements...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of slave “increase” ( Morgan, Laboring 82–83 ). Beyond “null value,” the “problem” of marronage where it meets the reproduction of racial capital underscores the uncertain value of someone like Cecilia who maintained a life adjacent to the colonial plantation-carceral system. By asserting more than...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Constitution .” In Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution , 153 – 83 . New York : Bobbs-Merrill , 1967 . Manjapra Kris . “ The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism .” In American Capitalism: New Histories , edited by Beckert Sven and Desan Christine...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the global. Even as racial capitalism and the attendant erosion of social provision escalates global ecological doom, the meteoric rise of authoritarianism as explicit statecraft shapes universalized conditions of catastrophe. On the one hand, the global reach of the virus makes the perils and possibilities...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... as the keystone of the entire social logic of capitalist property relations under slavery. What mattered was the fact that the enslaved woman necessarily passed racial Blackness and chattel status on to her progeny—that she would, in Hazel V. Carby’s words, give “birth to property and, directly, to capital itself...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... positioned as “global” theorizations of racialization. At least in part, these categories reflect distinct colonial attempts to link race to class and, thus, ultimately cannot be shorn from histories of racial capitalism. Such complexities call for a materialist genealogy of the Indian Ocean’s “onto...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
... and cost-benefit analyses whether one is writing for the public, shunning politics and the present, and embracing aesthetics, or writing queer, Marxist critiques of racial capitalism. The evidence of this is abundant, but the assault on higher education in Florida is exemplary of this. The actual...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and harm that produces a caesura in human populations and yields a huge pile of corpses; the accumulation, expropriated capacity, and extracted surplus con stitutive of racial capitalism and modernity; and the premature death, social precarity, and incarceration that characterize the present.1 Our...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... constraints and possibilities; for those who labor, the threat of exploitation and captivity looms over much smaller windows of opportunity for life and freedom. To labor at sea is to move precariously. Racial capitalism depends on the movement of labor even as the mobility of laboring bodies is often viewed...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... teleology mired in the very origins of racial capitalism and, as Sylvia Wynter has argued, the conflation ofthe history ofMan with the history ofthe human.16 From here, we can see how these inquiries are also at the heart of what might be called a moral economy of slavery studies-fueling debates on how...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... The resulting workplace successfully resonated with fans and advertisers alike, securing both survival and profitability for the NBA. By racially coding disciplinary policies, the NBA established Black players as sources of social and economic capital and extracted profit from this capital. This process...
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