Charisse Burden-Stelly is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and political and historical sociology. Her research pursues three complementary lines of inquiry. The first interrogates the transnational entanglements of U.S. capitalist racism, anticommunism, and antiblack racial oppression. The second excavates twentieth-century Black anticapitalist intellectual thought, theory, and praxis. Burden-Stelly’s third area of focus examines theories and discourses of economic development in the African diaspora.
Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive sat down with Burden-Stelly to discuss racial-capitalism, a concept that grounds the history of capitalism in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, especially Black people. The concept of racial capitalism asserts that racialized exploitation and capital accumulation are mutually reinforcing. Burden-Stelly has published work that appears in journals including Small Axe, Monthly Review, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies and the LA Progressive.
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