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CAPITALISM DOESN’T LOVE BLACK PEOPLE: RESOURCES

Slavery was central to the rise of capitalism in the United States:

* Matthew Desmond: American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation (New York Times, August 2019)

* Edward E. Baptist, interviewed by P.R. Lockhart: How slavery became America’s first big busines (Vox, August 2019)

* Nicholas Lemann: Is Capitalism Racist? (New Yorker, May 2020)

Racial wealth gap, Black working-class struggle:

* (VIDEO) Netflix: Explained: Racial Wealth Gap (YouTube, April 2020)

* William P. Jones: The Workers That Built America (The Nation, October 2019)

* Tracy Jan: U.S. trade policies have disproportionately harmed Black and Latino workers (Washington Post, January 2021)

COVID-19 Pandemic:

* Whitney N Laster Pirter: Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States (Health Education & Behavior, August 2020)

* Elizabeth S McClure, Pavithra Vasudevan, Zinzi Bailey, Snehal Patel, Whitney R Robinson: Racial Capitalism Within Public Health (American Journal of Epidemiology, July 2020)

* Ellie Gore: COVID-19 and Racial Capitalism in the UK (speri., May 2020)

BLM, Race and Capitalism:

* Barbara Ransby: The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter (Dissent Magazine, Fall 2015)

* Louise Hall: Racial injustice strike expected to draw tens of thousands of workers (The Independent, July 2020)

* Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò: On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism (Aeon, October 2020)