Alternatives: Silent compulsions: capitalist markets and race

McCarthy, Michael A.

doi:10.1080/07078552.2016.1211155

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Section: Necessity Contingency and Differencementioning

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“…One is that racism is necessary to divide the working class and legitimate the rule of the bourgeoisie. Racism is an ideological necessity of capitalism, justifying its unequal relations (Camp, Heatherton, and Karuka 2019; McCarthy 2016; Taylor 2016). “Capitalism requires inequality,” suggested Gilmore (2015), “and racism enshrines it.” A very different version, coming most predominantly from Fraser (2019), is that capitalism necessarily entails relations of exploitation and expropriation that feed off each other.…”

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Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism

2020

Sociological Theory

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In this essay the author assesses the relevance of scholarship on racial capitalism for sociological theory. The author highlights three tensions within the existing literature: (1) whether “race” as opposed to other forms of difference is the primary mode of differentiation in capitalism, (2) whether deficiencies in existing theory warrant the new concept “racial capitalism,” and (3) whether the connection between race and capitalism is a contingent or logical necessity. Existing discussions of racial capitalism implicitly or explicitly raise these tensions, but they do not adequately resolve them. Nonetheless, they remain important for generating further theory and research.

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Section: Necessity Contingency and Differencementioning

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Section: Necessity Contingency and Differencementioning

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Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism

2020

Sociological Theory

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“…This policy deepens poverty, social disparity and divisions; ethnic or gender, as they encourage growth without equitable distribution of resources among social groups. This is because differences present themselves in a capitalist setting as gender, nationality, or ethnicity, whereas in actual sense, it is argued they are racial differences (McCarthy, 2016). The violence, domination, and dispossession through expropriation unleashed by capitalism on the vulnerable individuals and groups, social, economic, and political in a capitalist society is coordinated in part, through the instrumentality of race (Fraser, 2018).…”

Section: The State Agency In the Capitalist Systemmentioning

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Capital, the State, and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

Miapyen

Bozkurt

2020

Sage Open

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This research discusses the environmental pollution by the capital in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria and identifies two historical agents that have the potential to harmonize their social power through a common language that may create a new social and political agency. We argue that the working class and the community-based social movements are necessary but not sufficient agents of transformation in the Nigerian oil-dependent capitalist economy. The cooperation between the global and local sites of resistance is an imperative: a synergy and deliberate action by the conglomerate of trade unions, community-based social movements, nongovernmental organizations, local and global activists, nurtures the potential to transform the capitalist domination, exploitation, and expropriation in Nigeria. Using secondary literature sources, we re-visit the conversation on the role of capital and the pollution of environment in Nigeria through the concept of “Movement of Movements”.

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“…Such competition, although created in a new context, use historically available racist history and tensions to divide workers. “Far from dissolving racial inequality,” McCarthy shows, “these market processes reproduce it” (McCarthy, 2016).…”

Section: Playing Race Against Class: Neoliberalism’s Challenge For Usmentioning

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Donald Trump: The unanticipated apotheosis of neoliberalism

Bhattacharya

2017

Cultural Dynamics

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Donald Trump’s election and subsequent presidency reveal important contradictions between the workings of the capitalist state and the capitalist class. While Trump may not have been the choice of the capitalist class, he is now in charge of the capitalist state. Within the context of this contradiction the essay explores the political category of the “white working class” and whether this class was a contributive factor in this unexpected electoral victory for Trump. It concludes by drawing attention to the unhelpful political and analytical fragmentation between exploitation (class) and oppression (gender, race, sexuality) under neoliberalism and urges a more unitary approach.

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Alternatives: Silent compulsions: capitalist markets and race

Cited by 10 publications

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Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism

Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism

Capital, the State, and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

Donald Trump: The unanticipated apotheosis of neoliberalism

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