Episode 12 | Coloniality in the Financial Systems of the U.S. Virgin Islands with Tami Navarro

When you look at the U.S. Virgin Islands, you may think of it as a getaway destination. 

However, this largely impoverished Black island U.S. territory has fallen prey to financial services companies like the Economic Development Commission (EDC) that reinforce a near-identical hierarchy to that of the colonial past where race, gender, and class effectuate familiar modes of marginalization. Dr. Tami Navarro, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at Drew University, joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her book, Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands, published by SUNY Press.