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Peter James Hudson

Peter James Hudson, Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA, is author of the forthcoming Banking on Empire: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873–1933.

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Race

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks such as Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and racial lines.

Peter James Hudson

Forum Response

Racial Capitalism and the Dark Proletariat

Racial capitalism has a lineage that predates Cedric Robinson.

Peter James Hudson

Class & Inequality, Race

The Racist Dawn of Capitalism

Recent histories of slavery and capitalism ignore radical black scholarship.

Peter James Hudson

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