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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Racism in Academia

Commentary on Julian Go, ‘Theorizing Racial Capitalism: Critique, Contingency & Context’

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17762076
Submitted
November 29, 2025
Published
2025-11-30

Abstract

Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of law at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a specialist in European Union labor law; she articulates this field of research with a postcolonial reading. The commentary below is a discussion of the text published by sociologist Julian Go on the possibilities of theorizing the concept of racial capitalism. The notes in Go's text refer to the English version of the text published in the journal.

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