Salvador L Rangel

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Swarthmore College

Research Interests

Race and ethnicity; migration; borders and citizenship; labor; capitalism; social theory; Marxism; political economy.

Bio

Salvador L. Rangel is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College. His research examines migration, citizenship, race, and capitalism from a historical-materialist perspective. His work has appeared in Science & Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Sociology, and New Politics. He is co-editor, with William I. Robinson, of The Antinomies of Black Marxism: A Critique of the Racial Capitalism Paradigm (Routledge, 2026).

The Antinomies of Black Marxism: Critique of the Racial Capitalism ParadigmCedric Robinson’s widely acclaimed study on Marxism and race has enjoyed a celebratory renaissance in recent years, becoming commonplace across the disciplines and beyond to activist and left circles. The Antinomies of Black Marxism contests its now‑enormous influence, bringing together leading scholars of Marxism to reassess the decisive question of race and Marxist thought and practice. While varied in their approaches, the contributors all affirm that racism is a modern production of ca