Linking Racial Capitalism and Urban Politics

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Session Description

With this panel, we explore how the concept and analytic lens of racial capitalism relates to urban politics and policy research, and the new insights it may generate. The papers identify theoretical contributions of racial capitalism and connect them to frameworks used to study urban politics, including regime theory, historical institutionalism, and the politics of ideas. The papers consider the concept’s methodological and empirical implications for urban research. Scholars examine a range of cities and levels of government within the U.S.; they analyze policy processes spanning issues such as policing, incarceration, fringe banking, mortgage and insurance discrimination, reparations, environmental justice and guaranteed income. Together, these papers place racial capitalism squarely in the field of urban politics, offering key analyses and charting an agenda forward.

Sub Unit

• Division 30: Urban Politics

Individual Presentations

• Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis - Michael Javen Fortner, Claremont McKenna College

• Race, Class, and the Visibility of High-Cost Financial Markets - Patricia Posey, University of Chicago

• Racial Orders, Market Logics, and American Political Development - Chloe Thurston, Northwestern University

• Pathways to (In)Equality - Timothy Weaver, SUNY, University at Albany

Chair

• Mara Sidney Rutgers University, Newark

Discussant

• Richardson Dilworth Drexel University