Curtis Marez is Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California. He is the former editor of American Quarterly, the official journal of the American Studies Association (ASA), and also past president of ASA. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics, Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance, and University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus.

"Compellingly illustrates the relationship between racial capitalism and place-making, resource extraction and transfer, and the politics of representation. Curtis Marez reveals how the hidden costs of television production are born by poor, disadvantaged Black, Brown, and Native people. In richly detailed examples from shoots in Georgia and New Mexico, Producing Precarity shows how site-specific production practices and relationships facilitate resource extraction—in short, representation and celebration of difference are really expressions of racial capitalism at work." - Herman Grey, University of California, Santa Cruz "Building on Cedric Robinson's groundbreaking work, Producing Precarity offers a brilliant theory of 'TV racial capitalism in place.' Curtis Marez deftly analyzes how relations of racialized extraction, settler colonial occupation, and 'the police and prison televisual complex' saturate the material conditions of production and the content of popular, often superficially progressive, streaming television series. A vital, invaluable contribution to key discussions in American studies, media studies, studies of racial capitalism, and settler colonial studies, and a work of demystification we all urgently need." - Laurie Ouellette, author of Lifestyle TV

Curtis Marez is Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California. He is the former editor of American Quarterly, the official journal of the American Studies Association (ASA), and also past president of ASA. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics, Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance, and University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus.

"Compellingly illustrates the relationship between racial capitalism and place-making, resource extraction and transfer, and the politics of representation. Curtis Marez reveals how the hidden costs of television production are born by poor, disadvantaged Black, Brown, and Native people. In richly detailed examples from shoots in Georgia and New Mexico, Producing Precarity shows how site-specific production practices and relationships facilitate resource extraction—in short, representation and celebration of difference are really expressions of racial capitalism at work." - Herman Grey, University of California, Santa Cruz "Building on Cedric Robinson's groundbreaking work, Producing Precarity offers a brilliant theory of 'TV racial capitalism in place.' Curtis Marez deftly analyzes how relations of racialized extraction, settler colonial occupation, and 'the police and prison televisual complex' saturate the material conditions of production and the content of popular, often superficially progressive, streaming television series. A vital, invaluable contribution to key discussions in American studies, media studies, studies of racial capitalism, and settler colonial studies, and a work of demystification we all urgently need." - Laurie Ouellette, author of Lifestyle TV

Curtis Marez is Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California. He is the former editor of American Quarterly, the official journal of the American Studies Association (ASA), and also past president of ASA. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics, Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance, and University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus.

"Compellingly illustrates the relationship between racial capitalism and place-making, resource extraction and transfer, and the politics of representation. Curtis Marez reveals how the hidden costs of television production are born by poor, disadvantaged Black, Brown, and Native people. In richly detailed examples from shoots in Georgia and New Mexico, Producing Precarity shows how site-specific production practices and relationships facilitate resource extraction—in short, representation and celebration of difference are really expressions of racial capitalism at work." - Herman Grey, University of California, Santa Cruz "Building on Cedric Robinson's groundbreaking work, Producing Precarity offers a brilliant theory of 'TV racial capitalism in place.' Curtis Marez deftly analyzes how relations of racialized extraction, settler colonial occupation, and 'the police and prison televisual complex' saturate the material conditions of production and the content of popular, often superficially progressive, streaming television series. A vital, invaluable contribution to key discussions in American studies, media studies, studies of racial capitalism, and settler colonial studies, and a work of demystification we all urgently need." - Laurie Ouellette, author of Lifestyle TV