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We live in a world of brutal racial violence and massive economic inequality. How did the world get this way? Can these global conditions be changed? This course tackles these questions through the lens of global racial capitalism. We will draw the global political theories of Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis and Saidiya Hartman to think about how people are brought into violent contact through imperialism, colonialism, warfare, trade, and cultural exchange. Topics include: slavery, logistics, global policing, war, class, profit, primitive accumulation, decolonization, resistance, and freedom.