Today, on the United States of America’s 243rd Independence Day, we think it befitting to take some time to read in its entirety and reflect upon Frederick… Read more “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Category: Racial Capitalism
“We Want Action, Not Tears!”
Persistent throughout the history of the United States has been the relationship between the destruction of Black bodies and the projection of White feelings. For centuries, one… Read more ““We Want Action, Not Tears!””
Mirroring the American South: The White Supremacist Hierarchies of United Fruit’s Banana Enclave
United Fruit’s employment policy reinforced racial boundaries, constructing a racial capitalist plantation economy that mirrored the American South. On July 15, 1924, Willard Beaulac, the American consul… Read more “Mirroring the American South: The White Supremacist Hierarchies of United Fruit’s Banana Enclave”