[Peace-discuss] IP as a substitute for class politics

[David Green via Peace-discuss]

>From "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America."Barbara Fields, New Left Review, 1990: “And there an insurmountable problem arises: since race is not genetically programmed, racial prejudice cannot be genetically programmed either but, like race itself, must arise historically. The most sophisticated of those who invoke race as a historical explanation—for example, George Fredrickson and Winthrop Jordan—recognize the difficulty. The preferred solution is to suppose that, having arisen historically, race then ceases to be a historical phenomenon and becomes instead an external motor of history; according to the fatuous but widely repeated formula, it ‘takes on a life of its own’. In other words, once historically acquired, race becomes hereditary. The shopworn metaphor thus offers camouflage for a latter-day version of Lamarckism.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

     On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:48 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
   
 

 "The New-Jim-Crow argument ... posits racism as an ontological force that imposes itself trans-contextually on historical circumstances. Therefore, ironically, the argument separates racism from its embeddedness in the structures and dynamics that reproduce American capitalism on a regular basis — like, for instance, presumptions of racial hierarchy that are built into assessments of skill in the labor market and into residential real estate value quite explicitly..."
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=8096


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