But below the ruling class, and outside of the realm of Harvard
admissions, racial stratifications persist in material terms. Wealth,
food-energy-water insecurity, and housing insecurity persist, at both
global and national scales, and Black and Indigenous peoples face the
worst of these just as they did a century ago. Geographer and theorist
of racial capitalism Ruth Wilson Gilmore defined racism as “the
state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of
group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death” in her
book-length explanation of how surplus land and financial capital helped
spur racially distributed mass incarceration and policing in California,
the U.S.’ most populous state.
The fact that there/has/been a material change is part and parcel of
racial capitalism’s ideological strategy: wokewashing offers itself up
as an explanation for the real and substantive changes in political
economy, though it is a largely misleading explanation, as it centers
individual success stories as evidence of supposed progress towards full
inclusion, which obscures the largely class-bound nature of the changes
in racial hierarchies. The potential small numbers of the middle class
of racial minorities to enter the increasingly multi-racial global elite
has often come alongside the cementation or even acceleration of
exploitation and vulnerability for working class people of all races.
Since the global and horrifically violent campaign of repression and
terrorism against the Left (particularly_anti-communism_
<https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-world-the-jakarta-method-built-a-conversation-with-vincent-bevins/>)
helped eliminate the basis for alternative explanations, the neoliberal
racial progress narratives go without substantive challenge.
https://spectrejournal.com/whats-new-about-woke-racial-capitalism-and-what-isnt/
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