Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives.
New modes of racism and exclusion emerge but the old ones never go away. We continue to
struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable still now to build commonality with
each other. In this incisive book Gargi Bhattacharyya revisits debates about racial capitalism
and its violence through differentiation. Taking the four lenses of prisons borders debt and
platforms they reveal how this moment of capitalist crisis positions humans as expendable but
differentially so in a process that remakes longstanding racialized hierarchies. Uncovering
practices and techniques embedded in the shifting processes of accumulation and state power
the chapters illuminate how value is extracted from populations through non-wage routes and
indebtedness. This engaging introduction to racial capitalism offers an interlocking and
insightful analysis of capitalist renewal essential for students and scholars interested in
issues of race racism and inequality.
