Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

You Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Race
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
18 Aug 2020
🖨️ Print Article

journalist · You Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Race

The centrality of race in the development of capitalism continues to be resisted by “the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial multiculturals who have the misconception that race no longer matters,” said Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. Dr Burden-Stelly authored a recent Monthly Review article titled “Modern US Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights.”

Racial Capitalism

Related Podcasts

 Racial Capitalism is the Kind We’ve Got, and Must Defeat
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Racial Capitalism is the Kind We’ve Got, and Must Defeat
25 May 2021
The issues of race and class are intertwined, and “we must fight against them simultaneously rather than trying to decide if racial or class exploi
Capitalism and Racism Entwined
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism and Racism Entwined
15 September 2020
“There’s long been a recognition of this intertwining of slavery, white supremacy, racism and capitalism,” said Dr.

More Stories


  • Why Attacking the Green Party to Assist the War Party Helps Donald Trump, Not Bernie Sanders
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    Why Attacking the Green Party to Assist the War Party Helps Donald Trump, Not Bernie Sanders
    04 Feb 2020
    A public attack that characterizes the Green Party as a of spoiler for the Democrats amounts to a defense of the Democrats policies on never-ending war and austerity.
  • Freedom Rider: Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
    04 Feb 2020
    US presidents range from very bad to less bad, but none were “good” for Black people – including the first Black one.
  • Return of the $electable Dead
    BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
    Return of the $electable Dead
    04 Feb 2020
    A Leni Riefenstahl film Written by Dr. Goebbels Produced by the DNC— Set in summer in Milwaukee:  “Return of the $electable Dead.” A
  • The Revolution on Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, from 1966 to 1976
    Todd Steven Burroughs
    The Revolution on Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, from 1966 to 1976
    04 Feb 2020
    Lerone Bennett’s de-colonized perspective was ultimately drowned out by the same capitalist forces that kept him alive in the first place.
  • BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
    Alex Alston
    BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
    04 Feb 2020
    Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us