Books
Issar, S. (2026). Reckoning with Racial Capitalism: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Left Critique Beyond Neoliberalism, Columbia University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Issar, S. (2025). “Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition.” Political Theory, 53(1), 34-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917241292638 (Online First: December 2024)
Issar, S. (2021). “Theorizing ‘Racial/Colonial Primitive Accumulation’: Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism.” Race & Class, 63(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396821996273
Issar, S. (2021). “Listening to Black Live Matter: Racial Capitalism and the Critique of Neoliberalism.” Contemporary Political Theory, 20(1), 48-71. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-020-00399-0 (Online First: April 2020)
Book Chapters
Issar, S., Brown, R., McMahon, J. (2021). “Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness.” In J.A. Gordon and D. Cornell (Eds.), Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg (343-370). Rowman & Littlefield International.
Community-Engaged Scholarship
Jamison, F., Issar, S., Fosl, C., et. al. (2023). “The History of Policing in Louisville: A Fact-Finding Report on Institutional Harms.” Report commissioned by and submitted to Louisville Metro Government.
Book Reviews, Critical Exchanges, and Review Essays
Biglieri, P., K. Gillespie, V. Huegel, S. Issar, et al. (2026). “Toward a Wellbeing State? Reimagining Welfare Politics for the 21st Century.” Contemporary Political Theory 25 (1): 70. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-026-00843-7
Issar, S. (2026). “Setting the Record Straight: Racism, Empire, and the Neoliberal Project.” Racial and Ethnic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2026.2625379
Issar, S. (2023). “Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization.” Political Theory, 51(1), 262-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128980 (50th Anniversary Special Issue)
Issar, S. (2022). “Unsettling the Politics of Race: A Review of Kevin Bruyneel’s Settler Memory.” Theory & Event, 25(4), 954-958 doi:10.1353/tae.2022.0051.
Issar, S. (2018). “Class, Race, and Marxism by David R. Roediger.” The Black Scholar, 48(4), 75–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2018.1514936
Interviews
Issar, S., Padlioni Jr., J. (2020). “‘To Address Black Suffering is to Destroy the World’: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III on Afropessimism.” Interfere: Journal for Critical Though and Radical Politics, 1(1), 92-113.
Manuscripts in progress
Issar, S. “Updating Abolition: Intellectual Property Rights and Contemporary Racial, Colonial, and Economic Domination” (under review)
Issar, S. “The Two Bhagats: The Fraught Politics of Race and Caste in the Interwar Period” (in progress)
