Colonial Racial Capitalism

Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia. Jodi A. Byrd is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Brian Jordan Jefferson is Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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 LeBrOn 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

"Throughout the chapters of [Colonial Racial Capitalism] the authors demonstrate the numerous ways everyday people have refused to become subsumed by these oppressive relationships, resulting in a work that does not merely 'recite the horrors' of a colonial racial capitalism, but offers insights into alternative means of living and relating to one another." - Kendall Artz (Ethnic and Racial Studies) "[T]his volume represents an exciting reworking of anti-capitalist critique as it offers a historical materialist methodology deeply informed by both Black radical and decolonial thought." - Andrew Hamilton (Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association)