Destin Jenkins

Destin Jenkins is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His work focuses on twentieth century America, and lies at the intersection of urban studies, African American politics, and the history of capitalism. He is interested in the financial processes and entanglements that underwrite racial inequality, and the implications of those entanglements for democracy, public space, and social movements. He is the author of The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (The University of Chicago Press, 2021), and co-editor of Histories of Racial Capitalism (Columbia University Press, 2021). His writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, Public Books, and elsewhere. Jenkins received his PhD in History from Stanford University in 2016.