📕 subnode [[@ryan/20210403145821 racial_capitalism_and_covid_19]] in 📚 node [[20210403145821-racial_capitalism_and_covid_19]]

Notes

  • racial capitalism:: the mutually constitutive entanglements of racialized and colonial exploitation within the process of capital accumulation

  • The author argues that the accumulation of capitalwould not be possible with out racialized and colonial exploitation

  • "The black worker is the founding stone of a new economic system in the 19th century and for the modern world." (paraphrased) --- Du Bois

  • Many low-income food production jobs are done by people of color

  • Caribbean countries have outperformed the Untied States in terms of handling the virus

  • Caribbean nations are peripheral and made dependent on capitalist nations

  • The United States has made no effort to manage the virus in prisons, which are majority black

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