Capitalism’s Dark Complexion

Pushkala Prasad is the Zankel Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Business at Skidmore College.

• 1. Capitalism’s Dark Complexion: Race, Markets and the Global System of Valuation 2. Dispossession by Any Means: Native American Encounters with Racialized Capitalism 3. Profiting from Human Capital: Chattel Slavery and the Commodification of Black Bodies4. The Colour of Sweat: Racialized Global Divisions of Labour 5. All-Consuming Racism: Divided Markets, Coloured Desires 6. Exhausting the Racialized Body: Extracting Pleasure and Life from Populations of Colour7. No End in Sight: New Frontiers in the Collaborations between Race and Capital

“Pushkala Prasad exposes the brutal realities of racial exploitation and dispossession that have defined capitalism throughout history. An essential read for anyone seeking to understand and challenge capitalism today”, Carl Rhodes, UTS Business School and author of Woke Capitalism.