16091
Hauptseminar
Racial Capitalism
Robin Celikates
Kommentar
The term “racial capitalism” is increasingly used to insist that, as a matter of historical fact, capitalism was built on the basis of colonialism and slavery, and that, as a matter of sociological fact, capitalist accumulation continues to operate through racial differentiation and hierarchization. Beyond theoretical debates, the term has also become an important reference point for radical social movements. In this seminar we will explore some of the central issues the turn to “racial capitalism” raises: If capitalism is necessarily racist, what makes it so? If race and gender are not accidental to, but constitutive of capitalism, how can the relation between class, race and gender be conceptualized in ways that also track their realignment in the current constellation? If, in the framework of racial capitalism, race is not primarily an identity but a structure of power, how does this impact our analysis both of capitalism and the movements that struggle against oppression and exploitation? And if the universal proletariat can no longer serve as the subject of revolutionary emancipation, what is the horizon for anti-capitalist struggles and transversal forms of solidarity today? We will read classical texts by authors including W. E. B. Du Bois, Cedric Robinson, Stuart Hall, and Angela Davis, and more recent contributions by Ruth W. Gilmore, Nancy Fraser, Inés Valdez and others. Schließen
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Di, 15.04.2025 10:00 - 12:00
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