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 a Global System of Valuation2. Profiting from Human Capital: Chattel Slavery and the Commodification of Black Bodies3. Dispossession by Any Means: Native American Encounters with Racialized Capitalism4. The Colour of Sweat: Racialized Global Divisions of Labour5. All-Consuming Racism: Divided Markets, Coloured Desires6. 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.