Slavery and Capitalism
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This course offers a critical survey of the historical and theoretical relationship between capitalism and slavery. We will read foundational texts by Max Weber, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, Loïc Wacquant, Michael Walzer, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Walter Johnson, Jonathan Levy, Edward Baptist, and Sven Beckert to explore how the origins, development, and crises of capitalism can be understood in relation to racialization. While this course primarily focuses on the history of capitalism and race in the United States, it will also engage with global history and theory of capitalism.