Gender and racial identity are central to establishing hierarchies of value in the modern world. These stratifications originate in the economic structure and social relations of capitalism, a system in which masculinity assumed a dominant, and blackness a subordinate, position. Situated in a contradictory social location, black masculinity is typically problematized, construed as deviant or deficient to normative masculinity. Understanding this construction requires examining the relationship between blackness and masculinity in capitalism.