WATCH: The Afterlife of Slavery: Markets, Property & Race [Cheryl Harris]
"Racial hierarchy is continually replenished through the market, while the market encodes property in accord with racial regimes."
WATCH: Justin Leroy: Race, Finance, and the Afterlife of Slavery [Social Impact Bonds]
"Because their proponents frame social impact bonds as philanthropic endeavours, the violence required to financialize human life becomes obfuscated. We aim to historicize the violence of financialization by drawing out links between financial capitalism as it developed during the height of the Atlantic slave trade and the more subtle violence of philanthropic financial capitalism."