Histories of Racial Capitalism by Justin Leroy;Destin Jenkins;

Author:Justin Leroy;Destin Jenkins;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POL042060, Political Science/Political Ideologies/Capitalism, HIS037030, History/Modern/General
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2021-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

What Remains

Despite all of the colonial fixes implemented, the excesses of racialized surplus populations in Hawai‘i never became completely settled. What remained in excess of racial capitalist, settler colonial, and intraimperial discipline and management was a transpacific radical tradition. Stretching from the provinces of the Philippines to the plantations of Hawai‘i were ongoing organized struggles for liberation and justice. An episode that expresses this radical tradition is contained within Luis Taruc’s 1953 autobiography, Born of the People.

Taruc was a key public figure of the Philippine anticolonial communist group Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan [The People’s Liberation Army], or Hukbalahap. The foreword of Born of the People was written by Paul Robeson, one of the most internationally famous black entertainers of the mid-twentieth century, who was widely known (and later punished) by global publics for his antiracist, anticolonial, and anticapitalist activism. Robeson reminisces about his time with workers in Hawai‘i, when he was able to get to know a large community of Filipino migrant organizers, become acquainted with their songs, and learn more about their struggles for economic justice and decolonization.

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