The Art from Racial Capitalism

By the Volume 24, Number 1 Editorial Collective

Volume 24, Number 1, Racial Capitalism
July 9, 2021

The images below are from Science for the People’s Spring/Summer 2021 issue, “Racial Capitalism.” For more information about the issue’s artists and authors, see the contributors page.

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Racial Capitalism cover art — Artwork by Mariah-Rose Marie

Decolonizing climate policy — Artwork by Dina Farone

AGHAM (Advocates of Science and Technology for the People)

Black Lives Matter sign — Artwork by Natalia Maria Padilla Castellanos

Scientists resist tyranny protest sign — From the Science for the People archives

Pastor Paul Wilson protests environmental racism — Pastor Paul Wilson of Union Hill Baptist Church stands in front of a group protesting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (© Chesapeake Climate Action Network)

Khalil Gibran Muhammad's The Condemnation of Blackness cover — Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness

Alondra Nelson's Body and Soul cover — Alondra Nelson’s Body and Soul

Juan Moreno Haines (Photograph by Peter Merts)

Cover of W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits — W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits

W. E. B. Du Bois's data portrait of marital status by age group — “Conjugal condition of American Negores according to age periods”, W. E. B. DuBois and students from Atlanta University (c. 1900)

W. E. B. Du Bois's income and expenditure infographic — “Income and expenditure of 150 Negro families in Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.”, W. E. B. Du Bois (c. 1900)

Early COVID-19 response timeline in Tanzania. Marina de Haro.

Early COVID-19 response timeline in Sweden. Marina de Haro.

Legacy of colonialism in Tanzania. Marina de Haro.

COVID-19 in Tanzania — Artwork by Andres Chang

George McJunkin — Artwork by Andres Chang

Arrowhead point distribution of Folsom culture (c. 10,900–9,500 B.P.). Adapted from projectilepoints.net

Arrowhead point distribution of Clovis culture — Arrowhead point distribution of Clovisculture (c. 15,000–10,000 B.P.). Adapted from projectilepoints.net

Solidarity with Frontline Health Workers — Artwork by Elijah Forbes

Science of the Few 1 — Artwork by Leslee Lazar

Science of the Few 3 — Artwork by Leslee Lazar

Cover of original issue featuring A History of the Concept of Race — Modified cover of Science for the People Vol. 14, No. 2

An Unshackled Birth

Susan Simensky Bietila

Artist Susan Bietila depicts how chains and shackles follow the incarcerated all the way into the birthing room.

An Atlas for a Green New Deal

Billy Fleming, Richard Weller, Xan Lillehei, Andrea McCullough, Zachary Hammaker, Xuanang Li, Nicholas Jabs, Anna Darling, Qi Wang, Ao Zhang, Rachel Creager, James Billingsley

This Atlas was conceived in response to three overlapping crises. First, excess carbon in the atmosphere is changing the world’s climate. Second, given the dire circumstances our planet now faces, we have reached the limits of what an...

Visualizing Radical Science: A Tribute to Elizabeth Fox-Wolfe

herb fox

Elizabeth was an integral part of the group that produced the first issues of Science for the People. She not only contributed artwork but also participated in layout, paste-up, and the numerous other tasks necessary in those pre-computer...

Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings

Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin

"Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings" uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking deeply into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization. This multimedia installation illuminates the vibrant materiality of immigrant...

Reading Body and Soul During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Revolutionary Lives: George McJunkin