TOP 5 RACIST MASS SHOOTERS

This essay historicizes the phenomenon of mass shootings within the context of transformations in the spatial and political economy of the U.S. neoliberal state. While mass shootings are not usually understood as iterations of racial violence, this essay argues that both the discursive and actual phenomenon of mass shootings must be understood in relation to the manifold forms of violence structured by racial capitalism—from territorial conquest to U.S. imperialism, spatial privatization to mass incarceration. It suggests that doing so disturbs and complicates positivist conceptions of the relation between race and violence that predominate in the humanities and social sciences, while demanding a reconsideration of the meaning and trajectory of civilian life within studies of race and bio-politics. #whytheracecardisplayed