Literatures of Racial Capitalism

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What is racial capitalism? This question will frame this course as a project of reading toward the entanglement of literatures with race and capital. With particular attention to problems of genre and history, we explore literary representations of what might be called racial capitalism in the spaces of the colony, the slave ship, the plantation, and the modern workplace. Works by Morrison, Melville, Faulkner, and Butler, as well as Marx, Robinson, Smallwood, and Du Bois. No prerequisites required.