Must capitalism be racist?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 30 11:21:17 PST 1999


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Post-affirmative action racism has affected (very loosely defined) leftist
>discourse as well, and conflicts emerged between leftists who criticize
>post-affirmative action racism and those who end up collaborating with it:
>"abolitionists" like Roediger versus proponents of "white trash studies"
>like Annalee Newitz

I don't see how Roediger and Newitz are necessarily in conflict, since they both involve the study of how the white race was created and perpetuates itself. Please elaborate.

Doug



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