Racial capitalism refers to the historical links between racism and capitalism. Just like racism comes from a melding of policies and ideas, many of the deepest inequities in the modern world come from the historical joining of racism and capitalism. Specifically, capitalism relies on inequity between different groups of people to turn a profit—and these different groups are often divided by race.
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Racial Capitalism Term Timeline in How to Be an Antiracist
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Chapter 12: Class
Kendi defines a class racist as someone who racializes certain socioeconomic groups or supports racial capitalist policies. Meanwhile, an antiracist anti-capitalist opposes racial capitalism.
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In Philadelphia, Kendi realized that the ghetto was formed through racial capitalism , the alliance between racism and capitalism. Martin Luther King Jr. pointed this out in...
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Now, stark racial inequities in poverty, unemployment, wages, and wealth show that racial capitalism continues as before. And these inequities are worsening: globally, the income gap between rich (mostly...
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...and racism were like “conjoined twins,” and W.E.B. Du Bois began formulating the idea of racial capitalism while reading Marx. The generation of antiracist anti-capitalist activists who immediately followed Du Bois faced...
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