Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia.

Jodi A. Byrd is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University.

Brian Jordan Jefferson is Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd and Brian Jordan Jefferson 1
I. Accumulation: Development by Dispossession
1. The Corporation and the Tribe / Joanne Barker 33
2. “In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal”: The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement / Alyosha Goldstein 60
3. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery / Cheryl I. Harris 88
II. Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence
4. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang 131
5. “Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed 159
6. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrón 206
7. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson 232
III. Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory
8. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure / Iyko Day 257
9. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido 284
IV. Rehearsing for the Future
10. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Facilitated by Brian Jordan Jefferson and Jodi Melamed 311
Contributors 333
Index 337