Economic paradigms explain racial and ethnic divisions as effects of economic structures
Evidence
What allows for a characterization of these very different approaches as belonging to a single tendency is simply this: they take economic relations and structures to have an overwhelmingly determining effect on the social structures of such formations. Specifically, those social divisions which assume a distinctively racial or ethnic character can be attributed or explained principally with reference to economic structures and processes. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 579
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the ‘economic’ tendency in race-class theory by its core explanatory commitment.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 579
- XREF: connects to: Economic and sociological paradigms of race correct each other’s weaknesses but both remain inadequate; Economic analysis is necessary but not sufficient for explaining racism; Economic structure is necessary but not sufficient to explain race relations (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Sociological approaches insist race and ethnicity have autonomous, non-reducible effects
#contradicts(0.80) - Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital
#exemplifies(0.70) - Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features
#qualifies(0.70) - Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them
#exemplifies(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205 - Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.
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