Chris Doss wrote:
>
> --- On Sun, 10/11/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> > Just because capitalism (as an organization of
> > production)treats us all
> > as interchangeable parts, i.e. as equals, there arises the
> > need to
> > understand why in a world in which all men [sic] are
> > created equal they
> > are so (in material circumstances) so unequal.
>
> This only makes sense in a society in which certain "races" are already disproportionately represented
Read shg. She demonstrates (and is only summarizing a great volume of scholarship in doing so) that a capitalist society necessarily _creates_ "races" whether there are any visible signs of "race" or not. My mother was a Michigan fruit farmer's daugher. Before the war their main labor force was white migrant southerners (always called "Arkies"). In a conversation with her once I discovered she believed that she could tell "southerners" by their appearance. She had in fact "racialized" white southerners. It happens all the time, and has been happening throughout the history of capitalism.
Have you read Fields or Laqueur? If so, argue against their arguments. If not, don't bother me.
Carrol