Racial Capitalism

This chapter reviews theories of racial capitalism and black critical theory published in 2021 under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. History and Aesthetics (Histories of Racial Capitalism, edited by Destin Jenkins and Dustin Leroy; Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World); 3. Critical Theory (Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World); 4. Globalization and Technology (Neferti Tadiar, ‘Thresholds’; Seb Franklin, The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value); and 5. Conclusion