Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe

For all that Cedric Robinson first deployed the concept of “racial capitalism” to describe the racialist hierarchies that early modern Europe entrenched and exported to the rest of the world, much of the scholarly literature on racial capitalism has centered North American histories of colonization, Indigenous dispossession, racial slavery, and indentured labor. More recently, scholars have begun to explore how theories of colonial and racial capitalism might be transplanted to and critically revised for other postcolonial conjunctures. This issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly joins that generative conversation by asking how we might theorize racial capitalism for the heart of empire.

Contributors:  Sabrina Axster, Sita Balani, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Sarah Bufkin, Barbora Černušáková, Ida Danewid, Michael Hardt, Amani Hassani, Sofia Jannok, Kristina Millona, Piro Rexhepi, Farnoush Rezai, Sasan Sedghinia, Anders Sunna, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tor Tourda, Ali Zokai