Urban Specters
The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism
By Sarah Mayorga
220 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 2 halftones, 3 maps, 2 graphs, 1 table
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7493-3
Published: August 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7492-6
Published: August 2023 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-7494-0
Published: August 2023
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Using data from interviews with 117 residents, Mayorga maps how racial capitalism creates the everyday harms people know all too well. Chronic underdevelopment, private property, and policing, she shows, have produced these harms. In this enlightening book, Mayorga identifies small windows into abolitionist possibilities that create different types of relations, ones based on care and connection. This is a guide for anyone trying to understand urban inequality, but also more importantly, for how we might create a different world.
About the Author
Sarah Mayorga is associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University and is the author of Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood.
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"Insightful in the most sorrowful of ways. Mayorga pushes us to listen hard to hear not only how racial capitalism infects our relations with each other and keeps us apart, but also how the demons of racial capitalism take over our best selves, creeping into how and where we care and who we prop up. To build a new world we must fully encounter the old one, in all its ugliness and disappointment. This work takes us a step closer."—Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London
"By linking theories of racial capitalism with tangible lived experiences, Sarah Mayorga takes the blinders off of the titular 'specters,' allowing us to see the bigger picture of capitalist underdevelopment and exploitative inclusion with greater clarity."—Eileen O'Brien, Saint Leo University