Prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement, and COVID-19’s deepening of inequalities, philanthropic foundations are increasingly claiming racial justice as a core part of their mission and strategy. This study uses a racial capitalism lens to examine racial justice organizations’ (RJOs) accountability relations towards the philanthropies that fund them. Drawing on interviews with leaders of Canadian RJOs, we unveil how the racial partitioning of leaders, fantasy and partners in these relations materially and symbolically dispossesses RJOs and the communities they represent. Our study complements the extant literature, which focuses on the depoliticization and co-optation effects of RJO–philanthropy accountability relations. Instead, we show how these accountability relations enforce ‘double dispossession’, thereby reproducing the racial capitalist political economy on which philanthropy is predicated. Our analysis indicates that philanthropy for racial justice, as it is currently practised, is impossible. We further identify the conditions under which it could become feasible.

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问责制的政治经济学：种族资本主义下慈善事业对种族正义组织的“双重剥夺”


在 Black Lives Matter 运动和 COVID-19 不平等加深的推动下，慈善基金会越来越多地将种族正义作为其使命和战略的核心部分。本研究使用种族资本主义的视角来审视种族正义组织 （RJO） 对资助他们的慈善机构的问责关系。通过对加拿大 RJO 领导人的采访，我们揭示了这些关系中领导人、幻想和合作伙伴的种族分割如何在物质上和象征性地剥夺了 RJO 及其所代表的社区。我们的研究补充了现有的文献，这些文献侧重于 RJO 与慈善事业问责关系的去政治化和拉拢效应。相反，我们展示了这些问责关系如何强制实施“双重剥夺”，从而复制了慈善事业所依赖的种族资本主义政治经济学。我们的分析表明，目前实行的种族正义慈善事业是不可能的。我们进一步确定了它可能变得可行的条件。