The Path to Montezuma: The Political Economy of Indianness and Blackness

Gayle, Steven D.

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Author(s): Steven D. Gayle

Publication date (Print): 14 October 2022

Journal: Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies

Keywords: African american, Native american, U.S. history, political economy, Montezuma Effect, Indianness, Blackness, maroon spaces, racial capital

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This paper will attempt to identify and discuss the following issues: (1) the concepts of African American and Native American identities as aspects of the mode of production in Euro-American or Western capitalism, specifically as employed by the former North American colonies that now comprise the United States, as well as the United States during the modern era; (2) How these identities in the form of “Blackness” and “Indianness” were utilized to establish Euro-American capitalism in the modern era; (3) The concept of political and economic upheaval in the form of what I have dubbed the “Montezuma Effect”; and finally, (4) how mental and physical maroon spaces within the overlapping realms of Indianness and Blackness present the potentiality of a Montezuma Effect to take hold in modern capitalism.

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Title: Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies

ISSN: 2515-2149

Publication date (Print): 14 October 2022

Volume: 3

Issue: 1

Pages: 24-35

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DOI: 10.13169/zanjglobsoutstud.3.1.0003

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Political science,Development studies,Cultural studies

Keywords: African american,Blackness,Indianness,Native american,racial capital,U.S. history,maroon spaces,political economy,Montezuma Effect

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[1] Clayton Dewey M.. Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Two Social Movements in the United States. Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 49(5):448–480. 2018. SAGE Publications. [Cross Ref]

[2] Fairclough Adam. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Quest for Nonviolent Social Change. Phylon (1960-). Vol. 47(1)1986. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]

[3] Galtung Johan. A Structural Theory of Imperialism. Journal of Peace Research. Vol. 8(2):81–117. 1971. SAGE Publications. [Cross Ref]

[4] Gill Stephen. Gramsci and global politics: towards a post-hegemonic research agendaGramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations. p. 1–18. 1993. Cambridge University Press. [Cross Ref]

[5] Huntington Samuel P.. The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs. Vol. 72(3)1993. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]

[6] Keohane Robert O.. The demand for international regimes. International Organization. Vol. 36(2):325–355. 1982. Cambridge University Press (CUP). [Cross Ref]

[7] Krasner Stephen D.. Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variables. International Organization. Vol. 36(2):185–205. 1982. Cambridge University Press (CUP). [Cross Ref]

[8] Leong Nancy. Reflections on Racial Capitalism. SSRN Electronic Journal. Elsevier BV. [Cross Ref]

[9] Marx Karl, Engels Friedrich. The Communist Manifesto. 2017. Pluto Press. [Cross Ref]

[10] Messer Chris M., Shriver Thomas E., Adams Alison E.. The Destruction of Black Wall Street: Tulsa's 1921 Riot and the Eradication of Accumulated Wealth. American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Vol. 77(3-4):789–819. 2018. Wiley. [Cross Ref]

[11] Oldham Paul, Frank Miriam Anne. ‘We the peoples…’: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Anthropology Today. Vol. 24(2):5–9. 2008. Wiley. [Cross Ref]

[12] Riggs Christopher K.. American Indians, Economic Development, and Self-Determination in the 1960s. Pacific Historical Review. Vol. 69(3):431–463. 2000. University of California Press. [Cross Ref]

[13] Smith J. Douglas. The Campaign for Racial Purity and the Erosion of Paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: "Nominally White, Biologically Mixed, and Legally Negro". The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 68(1)2002. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]

[14] Smith Michael E.. Archaeology and the Aztec Economy: The Social Scientific Use of Archaeological Data. Social Science History. Vol. 11(3):237–259. 1987. Cambridge University Press (CUP). [Cross Ref]

[15] Tucker Phillip Thomas. John Horse: Forgotten African-American Leader of the Second Seminole War. The Journal of Negro History. Vol. 77(2):74–83. 1992. University of Chicago Press. [Cross Ref]

[16] Wallerstein Immanuel. World-Systems Analysis. 2004. Duke University Press. [Cross Ref]

[17] Weeks Edythe E.. Politics of Space Law in a Post Cold War Era: Understanding Regime Change. SSRN Electronic Journal. Elsevier BV. [Cross Ref]

[18] Wynter Sylvia. Sambos and Minstrels. Social Text. (1)1979. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]