Between Racialization and White Supremacy: Another Marxist Response to Sean Walton

Ogunrotifa, Ayodeji Bayo

doi:10.4236/jss.2022.102017

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“…Racialisation here is defined as:an ideological process that involves racialising benefits, privileges, and opportunities to one group [possibly an ethnic group] over other groups by the capitalist ruling class and the state, and legitimising it by using policies, media, laws, regulations, and institutional practices as a means of entrenching division and disunity in the society and preserving their system of control under capitalism. (Ogunrotifa 2022: 240)…”

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The class basis of racialisation: The missing link in neo-Marxist analysis of racism

Ogunrotifa

2022

Capital & Class

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Racialisation is a Marxist concept that has been utilised to understand racism patterns and reproduction in Western societies for more than three decades. In Marxist parlance, racialisation is the ideological process through which the state racialised a section of the population (ethnic minorities) for political purposes. The centrality of the state in racialisation discourse has inhibited the class basis that underpins racialisation. This article articulates the class analysis of racialisation, positing that racialisation stems from racism ideology that the Western ruling class utilised to divide the people along the ethnic line as a means of preserving and maintaining ruling class influence and prestige in society and protecting the capitalist system from being challenged by the unity of the people along the class line. Racialisation is utilised to reproduce racism, using media, laws, regulations and institutional practices to entrench division and disunity in society and preserve their control system under capitalism. In discussing the future of racism, this article critiques the current anti-racism campaign/movement founded and rooted in race discourse and race consciousness and argues that a shift from race consciousness to racialised consciousness is pivotal towards deconstruction and eradicating all vestiges of racism in the global society. The article concludes that racialised consciousness would act as a political unifier in anti-racism campaigns and connects the struggles of Black working and middle class with that of the White working and middle class in terms of collaboration and solidarity, to collectively challenge the capitalist system that is responsible for oppression, inequality and racism on class lines.

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The class basis of racialisation: The missing link in neo-Marxist analysis of racism

Ogunrotifa

2022

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“…This proposal could only be achieved at the individual level of experience and only limited to individuals but does not capture the larger and structural context in which racism is practiced and reproduced in Western societies (American society inclusive), which is racialisation. Racialisation has been defined “as an ideological process that involves racialising benefits, privileges, and opportunities to one group [possibly an ethnic group] over other groups by the capitalist ruling class and the state, and legitimizing it by using policies, media, laws, regulations, and institutional practices as a means of entrenching division and disunity in the society and preserving their system of control under capitalism” (Ogunrotifa, 2022 , p. 240). This definition of racialisation has demonstrated that overt references to inferiority, superiority, distinct races, and racial hierarchy are rare in the contemporary era, especially in the public space, as racism is still practiced and reproduced covertly through racialisation.…”

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Emirbayer and Desmond's work on The Racial Order: A commentary

Ogunrotifa

2023

Front. Sociol.

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There is no Racial Order, but a Racialised Order in American Society: a Critique of Emirbayer and Desmond.

Ogunrotifa

2023

Socialism and Democracy

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Between Racialization and White Supremacy: Another Marxist Response to Sean Walton

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

The class basis of racialisation: The missing link in neo-Marxist analysis of racism

The class basis of racialisation: The missing link in neo-Marxist analysis of racism

Emirbayer and Desmond's work on The Racial Order: A commentary

There is no Racial Order, but a Racialised Order in American Society: a Critique of Emirbayer and Desmond.

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