In cities around the world, especially in the United States, processes of socio-spatial restructuring continue to unfold. Often understood as neoliberal urbanism and identified through concepts such as gentrification, these processes entail the displacement of subaltern classes to the far edges of urban life. In this talk, Roy argued that it is necessary to analyse such transformations through a theorisation of racial capitalism. In particular, she drew on research conducted by scholars and social movements in Los Angeles to delineate processes of racial banishment.  In doing so, Roy argued that the standard conceptual repertoire of urban studies is ill-equipped to study such processes.  In particular, influential explanations that invoke neoliberalisation often miss the long histories of dispossession and disposability that are being remade in the contemporary city.  Put another way, she made the case for how urban studies must contend with legacies of white liberalism and the elision of the race question.  Relying on both postcolonial theory and the black radical tradition, Roy demonstrated that what is at stake is not only a more robust analysis of urbanism but also attention to the various forms of movement and mobilisation that are challenging racial banishment.