{"product_id":"race-empire-and-the-crisis-paula-chakravartty-9781421410012","title":"Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major factor leading to the U.S. financial crisis was predatory lending by large banks to underprivileged and often nonwhite borrowers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePredatory lending of subprime mortgages targeting the most economically vulnerable minority communities helped trigger the current global financial crisis. This special issue of the journal \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which \"subprime\" becomes a racial signifier in the current debate about the causes and fixes for a capitalism itself in crisis. It signifies both the accumulated dispossession of racial exclusion in the twenty-first century gilded age in the United States and Global North more broadly, as well as the imperial ambitions of three decades of U.S.-led neoliberal rule over the Global South. Essays are divided into sections: debt, discipline, and empire; the pathologies of debt; and security, space, and resistance in the post-racial urban setting. Focusing on race and empire, that is, on racial and global subjugation, the contributors expose the ethical-political underpinnings of the current global financial crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include: \u003cbr\u003eRadhika Balakrishnan\u003cbr\u003eJordan T. Camp\u003cbr\u003ePaula Chakravartty\u003cbr\u003eOfelia Ortiz Cuevas\u003cbr\u003eSophie Ellen Fung\u003cbr\u003eDaniel J. Hammel\u003cbr\u003eJames Heintz\u003cbr\u003eBosco Ho\u003cbr\u003eZachary Liebowitz\u003cbr\u003eTayyab Mahmud\u003cbr\u003eJohn D. M疵quez\u003cbr\u003ePierson Nettling\u003cbr\u003eC. S. Ponder\u003cbr\u003eSarita Echavez See\u003cbr\u003eShawn Shimpach\u003cbr\u003eDenise Ferreira da Silva\u003cbr\u003eCatherine R. Squires\u003cbr\u003eMichael J. Watts\u003cbr\u003eElvin Wyly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Chakravartty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142141001X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421410012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Paula Chakravartty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43934796251391,"sku":"9781421410012","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_79aee64a-f934-495c-9f44-9f1d75d5bc6d.jpg?v=1681416099","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-empire-and-the-crisis-paula-chakravartty-9781421410012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}