Research

My research is motivated by three interrelated questions: (1) How do we understand the relationship between racial/colonial domination and political economy? (2) What forms of knowledge do racialized and colonized groups produce to conceptualize and contest this relationship? (3) How do the connections between race-making, empire, and capitalism shape democratic politics and political identities transnationally?

Methodologically, I answer these questions by drawing from political theory, political economy, Black studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and the conceptual insights generated by emancipatory resistance movements. I am thus interested not only in the co-configuration of political economy and racial/colonial domination at particular historical junctures, but also how shifting democratic horizons characterize collective struggles against such interlinked domination.

My book manuscript, Unraveling Racial Capitalism, is under contract with Columbia University Press.