There is a growing literature examining the decline in labor market status experienced by lesser-educated men in the past half century. Despite workplace advances in automation and rising real wages for most workers during much of this period, lesser-educated men have experienced declining employment rates and real wages, along with declining marriage rates.
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital accum…