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Racial capitalism, though primarily discussed in the context of the United States in modern literature, is theorized to be a global system. Apartheid in South Africa as well as the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict has been attributed to racial domination and capital accumulation.
The concept of racial capitalism asserts that racialized exploitation and capital accumulation are mutually reinforcing. The idea is attributed to Cedric Robinson, who argued that “the development, organization and expansion of capitalist society pursued essentially racial directions.” 1
The Article focuses on instances of racial capitalism in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions use nonwhite people to acquire social and economic value. Affirmative action doctrines and policies provide much of the impetus for this form of racial capitalism.
Robin D. G. Kelley discusses the genesis of the concept of racial capitalism and the important contributions that scholar Cedric Robinson made to understanding race and the making of the global capitalist order over the course of the last 700 years.
Examples include disproportionate numbers of Black and Latinx individuals in essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States [2], and disproportionate numbers of incarcerated Black men exploited in the prison-industrial complex [3]. Angela Davis: We can’t eradicate racism without eradicating racial capitalism [4].
Abstract. The popularity of the concept of “racial capitalism” has exploded over the past decade, penetrating both academic and activist circles. Two thinkers have been foundational to this revival: Cedric Robinson and Stuart Hall.
In this introduction, we outline urban scholars’ historical explanations of racial inequality and provide an overview of the development and definition(s) of racial capitalism. We then summarize the papers included in this special issue and discuss a pathway forward for urban sociology.
