How do we subvert capitalist science and confront its complicity in sustaining racial capitalism? How can science be retooled for liberation?
Volume 24, Number 1
Racial Capitalism
Spring/Summer 2021
Reports from SftP chapters, the BIPOC Caucus, and the Translation Working Group, as well as information about SftP's fiscal sponsor.
A successful grassroots effort shows that the struggle for environmental justice is inherently a struggle against racial capitalism.
Natural disasters, authoritarianism, and privatization highlight the persistent influence of US imperialism on the Philippines.
A B-2 Bomber’s lazy hum metamorphosizes / Boom! Flash! A port town leveled / By a pencil drawing of atoms on a notepad
Body and Soul’s exploration of the vision of healthcare put forward by the Black Panther Party provides a way to imagine a healthier society.
See the art and other images featured in Science for the People's Spring/Summer 2021 issue on racial capitalism.
Archeologist George McJunkin, a former slave with no formal education, challenges defenders of scholarly orthodoxy—and wins.
A history of the concept of race and science's role in its justification, originally featured in SftP's 1982 issue "Racism in Science."
The revolutionary science of Du Bois and Kosambi did not pursue disinterested knowledge. Rather, it involved intimate contact with the people.
In The Disordered Cosmos, physicist Prescod-Weinstein discusses what must change to allow Black girls and women to explore their curiosity.
Both Tanzania and Sweden have refused strict COVID-19 measures, yet the media narratives are vastly different.
Mwitikio wa kimataifa juu ya Tanzania kutokuchukua hatua zozote za kudhibiti janga la Ugonjwa wa Virusi vya Korona umekuwa ukipamba moto tangu Machi 2020.
The global pandemic brought light to deep racial disparities, income inequalities, healthcare shortages, and a climate crisis that’s well underway. So, is there room to care about the darkness of prisons?
Mientras tanto, el brote de San Quentin demuestra que el hacinamiento en las cárceles no debe tolerarse. Mata.
Weaponization of data has buoyed the racist social order, but appropriate use of data can be powerfully emancipatory.
Debemos centrar la erradicación de los efectos racializados del colonialismo y el capitalismo en los imaginarios que guían todas las políticas y acciones climáticas.
The eradication of the racialized effects of colonialism and capitalism must be at the center of all climate policy making and action.
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