1. The Organization and Racial Formation: The Case of Railroad Labor. • Michael Calderon-Zaks, University of California, San Diego.

2. Beyond “race” and “modernity”: technologies, practices and categories of difference-making at the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade • Luisa Farah Schwartzman, University of Toronto.

3. Rethinking Race “Relations”: Understanding the State’s Role in (Re)Constituting Transnational Racial Order • Kristina E. Lee, Northwestern University.

4. Colonial Bureaucracy, Ethnic Conflict, and Post-Independent Statecraft: Racial Classification in Zambia and Zimbabwe • Yao Lu, University of California Davis.

5. "Fellow-slaves": Class, Tax, and Compensated Emancipation in the British Imperial World • Zachary Sell, University of Notre Dame.