Episode 11 | Michael Ralph on the Forensics of Capital 

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Michael Ralph,

Author of Forensics of Capital (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which Mamadou Diouf describes as a book that, “draws from various sources and resources to identify critical moments, events, and key social actors; investigates issues of risk, liability, citizenship, sovereignty, leadership, historical injustices, violence, (un)employment, and displacement; and proposes an original cartography of the formation of modern Senegal. This bold, concise, and innovative book presents a compelling profile of the ‘Senegal exception / success story’ narrative based on a scrupulous and captivating probing of forensic anthropology in an African context by one of the most astute and versatile theorists.”