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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Mukul Sharma
07 Jun 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Mukul Sharma. Sharma is Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. His article is “Caste, Environment Justice, and Intersectionality of Dalit–Black…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Allan E.S. Lumba’s Book, “Monetary Authorities”
10 May 2023
This week’s featured author is Allan E.S. Lumba.
Jon Jeter
An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
03 Mar 2021
The author, a former corporate journalist like Hedges, reminds him that white workers betrayed Black workers and class solldarity, not the other way around.
Anthony Monteiro
Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis
23 Sep 2020
Oprah gushes that this book by the latest darling of the ruling classes might “save us,” but all it’s really trying to save is capitalism.
Anthony Monteiro
The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
02 Sep 2020
Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism.
Philippe Gendrault
Some Reflections on Systemic Racism and Capitalism
02 Sep 2020
The system of exploitation that bore slavery remains, albeit without slavery, the very same system of exploitation.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
19 Aug 2020
Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Brigh
“Racial Capitalism” is the Kind We’ve Got
12 Aug 2020
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.