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    Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?

    Presidential Address delivered at the one hundred fourteenth Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Savannah, GA, on January 5, 2018. Capitalism has always been deeply ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Nancy Fraser
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    Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser

    Thank you, Professor Fraser, for being here, and for such a stimulating paper. What I appreciated most was its refusal of a trend (or a temptation) in which ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Barnaby Raine
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    A Response to Nancy Fraser

    There is no history of capitalism without a history of racism. But what is the specific relationship between racism and capitalism? How can this relationship be theorized? To ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton, and Manu Karuka (The Racial Capitalism Working Group, Barnard College)
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    The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser

    The answer is no. Capitalism has been racist, yes, of course. History is unequivocal. There could have been no Manchester without Mississippi. But capitalism is not necessarily racist. ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Bruce Robbins
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    Coddled?

      From beneath the rubble of liberal democracy come the yowls and yelps of those pinioned under the wreckage, guardians of the old order trying to set the ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Laura Kipnis
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    On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck

    A bestselling 2016 blog-book bears the title: “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck”. The title has undoubtedly gone some way in making the book eye-catching. Perhaps ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By May Hawas
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    Zanzibar in Ivoryton

    There is a small detail near the ending of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that in the midst of the dramatic dialogue between Marlow and Kurtz’s Intended is often ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Gaurav Desai
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    Setting a course for Fairness: the Spanish Elections

    Watching the results of the General Elections come in on the evening April 28th was a matter of watching the electoral map of Spain turn red, the color ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By John McClure
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    Liberal Racism

    As some of you know, the Human Resources department at Rutgers used my Facebook posts of late May and early June to convict me of violating the university’s ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By James Livingston
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    Political Apology of a Lingerie Model

    In the middle of this summer, I was booked to shoot for a new lingerie brand. The rate was on the low side (about 60% of industry standard ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Sophia Richards
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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