Option A: A Map of Racial Capitalism and East Asia
Map one circuit of racial capitalism that we covered in this class. What places connect to each
other? Why did you decide to connect these specific places to each other? How does racial
capitalism order and divide people according to hierarchies within your map? What are the impacts
of these orderings and divisions upon people and non-people (animals, environments etc)? Your
responses to these questions can be visualized on the map, can be provided as text on the map, or
can be provided as audio clips. Don’t forget Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s point that global conditions
and processes are always connected to local sites of place-making.
Option B: A Map of Abolitionist Geographies (place-making)
Place-making has been an important way to understand the way that people living within racial
capitalism have created relations of extra coloniality with each other (that is to say, relationships
that come out of, but exceed, and sometimes disrupt, the workings of racial capitalism and
colonialism as Goffe discussed in her writings on reggae in Jamaica). Select one instance that we
have covered in this course that you believe, serves as an example of this kind of place-making.
Map the places that people who engaged in place-making would have valued as sites of struggle or
even refuge. A kitchen, a backyard, or a city block are all acceptable responses. Your responses to
these questions can be visualized on the map, can be provided as text on the map, or can be
provided as audio clips. Don’t forget Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s point that local sites of place-making
are always connected to global conditions and processes.
