Contributors: Mehrsa Baradaran, Michael O'Malley, Michael Ralph, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, David Freund, Destin Jenkins, Devin Fergus, Peter Hudson, Camille Walsh, Tanay Tatum-Edwards, Shennette Garrett-Scott, K-Sue Park, and Sarah Quinn.
In several historic moments of banking or monetary reform, issues of race were inextricably tied to issues of money.
September 25, 2020
K-Sue Park, Georgetown Law
One of the principal insights and analytical charges presented by scholars of racial capitalism is that racism makes money.
July 28, 2020
Peter James Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles
When discussions arose concerning the potential redesign of the US twenty-dollar bill, with the visage of Andrew Jackson replaced by an image of abolitionist Harriet Tubman
July 17, 2020
Michael Ralph, New York University
In the past few months, longstanding critiques about mass incarceration and police abuse have pushed a plea familiar to abolitionists into commercial journalism and casual conversation.
June 15, 2020
Destin Jenkins, University of Chicago
In his 1983 classic, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Manning Marable asked
June 8, 2020
David M. P. Freund, University of Maryland
No doubt many readers here will be familiar with the role of the financial sector in shaping America’s peculiar history of racial inequality
May 28, 2020
Michael O’Malley, George Mason University
American debates about money have always reflected our fundamental ambivalence about capitalism itself.
May 19, 2020
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California Irvine
In order to achieve racial justice in America, we must confront and then thoroughly reject simplistic and ahistorical myths about markets and capitalism.
