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Capitalism's Dark Complexion : Race, Markets and the Politics of Value.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prasad, Pushkala.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Economic aspects.
- Capitalism--Social aspects.
- Race relations.
- Capitalism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Has capitalism always partnered with race?This book examines how capitalism operates through racialised structures across different moments in global history.Moving beyond conventional class-based analyses, the book deepens our understanding of capitalism's effects by exploring how race has been used to value, control and exploit populations.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Capitalism's Dark Complexion: Race, Markets and a Global System of Valuation
- Coming to grips with capitalism
- Understanding racism
- Racial capitalism and the colour line in the Black Radical Tradition
- Whiteness as symbolic capital and status property
- Symbolic capital and split labour markets
- Skin colour as racial capital
- Racial capitalism beyond national boundaries: global interdependencies and transnational flows
- 2 Profiting from Human Capital: Chattel Slavery and the Commodification of Black Bodies
- Chattel slavery in the New World and beyond: an overview
- Slavery and capitalism: an indivisible relationship
- Chattel slavery and the logic of capitalism
- Slavery's tight nexus with industrial capitalism
- Slavery's long shadow over capitalism
- 3 Dispossession by Any Means: Native American Encounters with Racialized Capitalism
- America before the Europeans
- The grammar of race behind the European-Indian encounters
- The curse of soft gold: ravages of the fur trade
- 'Redskins', buffalo hides and market prices behind gruesome ecocide
- 4 The Colour of Sweat: Racialized Global Divisions of Labour
- Return to indenture: racialized substitutes for slaves
- Working in the wonderful worlds of whiteness
- Enclaving the 'New South' in America and abroad
- Race and the superexploited body
- 5 All-Consuming Racism: Divided Markets, Coloured Desires
- Consumerism: the centrepiece of capitalism
- Advertising and commodity racism
- Racialized consumption and marketing in a multicultural world
- Body modification and the promise of racial capital
- 6 Exhausting the Racialized Body: Extracting Pleasure and Life from Populations of Colour.
- Sexscapes of global tourism: voyagers, destinations and practices
- Sex tourism and the libidinal economy: markets, militarism and imperial drivers
- Normalizing and commodifying colonial desire
- Reproductive extraction on the global stage: racial commodification in the fertility industry
- Womb renting as a global industry: institutionalizing commercial gestational surrogacy
- Carried and delivered: race, class and nationality in the global commodification of pregnancy
- 7 No End in Sight: New Frontiers in the Collaborations between Race and Capital
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4465-X
- OCLC:
- 1586552395
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