The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism

Auteur

Zachary Levenson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida International University, USA, and Senior Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (2022).

Marcel Paret is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, USA, and Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion (2022).

Texte du rabat

This book documents the emergence and development of the theory of racial capitalism in apartheid South Africa. It interrogates the specificity of this theory in the South African context and draws lessons for its global applicability. The volume was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Contenu

Introduction: The South African tradition of racial capitalism 1. The context of struggle: racial capitalism and political praxis in South Africa 2. Merely liberals? Du Bois and Plaatje as radical critics of racial capitalism 3. Articulating difference: reading Biko-with-Hall 4. Bernard Magubane on the political economy of race and class in South Africa 5. Whiteness and racial capitalism: to whom do the 'wages of whiteness' accrue? 6. Reproducing 'racial capitalism' through retailing in South Africa: gender, labour, and consumption, 1950s1970s 7. Geographies of racial capitalism: the July 2021 riots in South Africa 8. Racial capitalism: an unfinished history