By drawing on important insights provided by recent literature exploring the relationship b... more By drawing on important insights provided by recent literature exploring the relationship between 'race' and finance, I emphasise how racialised populations have always been targets of expropriation by techniques of finance, that continue to innovate ways to create and extract capital from racialised life. Poverty finance continues to find spaces and bodies for accumulation through experimental financial techniques and discursive constructions and reconstructions of the spaces and bodies it targets. In comparing practices of redlining in the United Stated and commercial microfinance in the Global South, I demonstrate how “the global financial system fundamentally depends, and has always depended upon, creating within it sabotaged financial subjects by drawing on and re-inscribing the legacies of racism and colonialism” (Chakravarty & Denise Ferreira da Silva, 2012 cited in Haiven, 2017, 352)
In the first section I argue that changing race relations in the post-civil rights era formed the... more In the first section I argue that changing race relations in the post-civil rights era formed the pretext for the American Turn to neoliberalism. Ranlophe Hohle’s (2015, 2017) work provides and important and unique analysis of the racial recoding of policy imperatives along a binary discourse of black-public white-private that facilitated the turn of white working and middle classes towards neoliberal policies, away from state welfare. From this analytical position, I argue that the black-public | white-private discourse of neoliberalism reveals how race(ism) serve(d)(s) as the primary means of galvanizing support from the electoral majority thus enabling liberal business elites to achieve state power.
By drawing on important insights provided by recent literature exploring the relationship b... more By drawing on important insights provided by recent literature exploring the relationship between 'race' and finance, I emphasise how racialised populations have always been targets of expropriation by techniques of finance, that continue to innovate ways to create and extract capital from racialised life. Poverty finance continues to find spaces and bodies for accumulation through experimental financial techniques and discursive constructions and reconstructions of the spaces and bodies it targets. In comparing practices of redlining in the United Stated and commercial microfinance in the Global South, I demonstrate how “the global financial system fundamentally depends, and has always depended upon, creating within it sabotaged financial subjects by drawing on and re-inscribing the legacies of racism and colonialism” (Chakravarty & Denise Ferreira da Silva, 2012 cited in Haiven, 2017, 352)
In the first section I argue that changing race relations in the post-civil rights era formed the... more In the first section I argue that changing race relations in the post-civil rights era formed the pretext for the American Turn to neoliberalism. Ranlophe Hohle’s (2015, 2017) work provides and important and unique analysis of the racial recoding of policy imperatives along a binary discourse of black-public white-private that facilitated the turn of white working and middle classes towards neoliberal policies, away from state welfare. From this analytical position, I argue that the black-public | white-private discourse of neoliberalism reveals how race(ism) serve(d)(s) as the primary means of galvanizing support from the electoral majority thus enabling liberal business elites to achieve state power.
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