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Central among the concerns of the American Kairos effort is the racism that is endemic to our American culture. In the article, Globalization and Racialization, Dr. Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political
Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University, grounds this power relation in the context of another of the central concerns of the American Kairos effort, globalism.
…the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of global apartheid…
Inside the United States, the processes of global apartheid are best
represented by what I call the New Racial Domain. This New Racial
Domain is different from other, earlier forms of racial domination,
such as slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and ghettoization, or strict
residential segregation, in several critical respects. These earlier
racial formations or domains were grounded or based primarily, if not
exclusively, in the political economy of US capitalism. Anti-racist or
oppositional movements that blacks, other people of color and white
anti-racists built were largely predicated upon the confines or
realities of domestic markets and the policies of the US nation-state.
Meaningful social reforms such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 were debated almost entirely within the
context of America’s expanding domestic economy and a background of
Keynesian, welfare state public policies.
The political economy of the “New Racial Domain,” by contrast,
is driven and largely determined by the forces of transnational
capitalism and the public policies of state neoliberalism. From the
vantage point of the most oppressed US populations, the New Racial
Domain rests on an unholy trinity, or deadly triad, of structural
barriers to a decent life. These oppressive structures are mass
unemployment, mass incarceration, and mass disfranchisement. Each
factor directly feeds and accelerates the others, creating an
ever-widening circle of social disadvantage, poverty, and civil death,
touching the lives of tens of millions of US people.
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To disambiguate the terms globalism and globalization, see also:
Globalism Versus Globalization
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