Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism

Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism

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Author/Contributor(s): Mayorga, Sarah
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Date: 08/29/2023
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
"Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout our existence, shapes our lives, argues Sarah Mayorga. Focusing on the experiences and stories of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations, urban specters, are often partial recognitions of the exploitation and dehumanization produced by racial capitalism. In this illuminating and enlightening book, Mayorga identifies small windows into abolitionist possibilities that created different types of relations, ones based on care and connection-this is a guide for anyone trying to understand urban inequality, but also, more importantly, how we might create a different world"--