Shorter Pieces
Robin D.G. Kelley, “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?” 2017.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, “A Framework to Help Us Understand the World,” 2023.
Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy, “The Old History of Capitalism,” 2021.
Minkah Makalani, “Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race,” 2022.
and Liam Kofi Bright, “Response to Michael Walzer,” 2020.
Arun Kundnani, “What is Racial Capitalism?” 2020.
Charisse Burden-Stelley, “Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Insights,” 2020.
Matt Vega, “Racial Capitalism,” 2022.
Listening and Viewing
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore,” 2020.
Robin D.G. Kelley, “What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?” 2017.
Alana Lentin, “Introduction to Racial Capitalism,” 2021.
Books and Longer Pieces
Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy (editors), Histories of Racial Capitalism, 2021
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition,” 2022 [forthcoming]
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, 1983. [review of book linked]
Walter Johnson, “The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States,” 2020. [review of book linked]
Michael Ralph and Maya Singhal, “Racial Capitalism,” 2019.