Raced Markets: Prefatory Note

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David Roediger teaches History and American Studies at University of Kansas. He completed undergraduate work at Northern Illinois University. Roediger holds a PhD from Northwestern and has previously taught at University of Illinois and University of Minnesota. His books include Seizing Freedom, The Wages of Whiteness, and (with Elizabeth Esch) The Production of Difference.

Notes

1 Campbell, J. (2016), ‘Robinson Crusoe through the Ages: A Lesson in Ethics, with Llamas’, Yale Alumni Magazine, November–December, p. 80. Available from: https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4373-robinson-crusoe-through-the-ages; for Marx’s extended comment on Crusoe, see Marx, K. (1906), Capital, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company), p. 88.

2 Marx, Capital, 823. For an interesting elaboration of how Marx might have used Crusoe differently to consider primitive accumulation, see Hymer, S. (2011), ‘Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation’, Monthly Review, September, p. 63. Available from: https://monthlyreview.org/2011/09/01/robinson-crusoe-and-the-secret-of-primitive-accumulation/.

3 Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015), The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). Lee, R. (2017), ‘Accounting for Conquest: The Price of the Louisiana Purchase of Indian Country’, Journal of American History, 103, pp. 921–42; Rogin, M. (1975), Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (New York: Knopf), esp. pp. 2–113.

4 Harris, C. (1993), ‘Whiteness as Property’, Harvard Law Review, 106, pp. 1709–95.

5 Thomas, D.C. (2013), ‘Cedric Robinson and Racial Capitalism’, African Identities, 11, pp. 133–47. The longstanding activist scholarship of the British journal Race and Class also deserves mention for its frequent refusals to separate the nouns in its title.

6 Anievas, A., Manchada, N. and Shilliam, R. (eds) (2014), Confronting the Global Colour Line: Race and Racism in International Politics (Abington, GB: Routledge Books).

7 Lebowitz, M.A. (2006), ‘The Politics of Assumption, the Assumption of Politics’, Historical Materialism, 14, pp. 29–47. Lebowitz (2003) develops these ideas also in his Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class, 2nd ed. (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan) and in ‘Hats and Men: Marx’s Faulty Symmetry’, The Bullet, May 8. Available from: http://socialistproject.ca/bullet/1410.php. See also Esch, E. and Roediger, D. (2012), The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press).

8 Lowe, L. (1996), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press), esp. p. 28; Manning, F.T.C. (2015), ‘Closing the Conceptual Gap: A Response to Cinzia Arruzza’s “Remarks on Gender”’, Viewpoint Magazine, May 4. Available from: https://viewpointmag.com/2015/05/04/closing-the-conceptual-gap-a-response-to-cinzia-arruzzas-remarks-on-gender/; Dubilet, A. (2015), ‘Dispossession, Uselessness, and the Limits of Humanism’, Syndicate, April. Available from: https://syndicatetheology.com/commentary/dispossession-uselessness-and-the-limits-of-humanism/; Chen, C. (2013), ‘The Limit Point of Capitalist Equality’, Endnotes, September, p. 3. Available from: http://endnotes.org.uk/en/chris-chen-the-limit-point-of-capitalist-equality; Kyungwon Hong, G. (2006), The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).