Global capitalism’s outcomes are best analyzed through difference rather than race alone

Evidence

We need to bend the twig in the direction of understanding the full outcome of the new phase of global capitalism. And that is about difference, it’s about why the question of difference is so much on the table; it’s why religion has made a return; it’s why half the world feels as if it’s become the proletariat of the other half; it’s why so many people are left out; it’s why Africa is in such a terrible disastrous state, on and on and on. So that is not enough. Lots of things follow on from that. But if you ask me in terms of how I would intervene in any discussion, I’d intervene to remind them of the global dimensions of what is going on. So whereas twenty years ago I would intervene in relation to questions of blackness in terms of race, I would intervene now not forgetting race at all but intervene in the direction of questions of difference. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1152

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fanon’s and Said’s projects on racialized/colonial selfhood, and prefigures how Islamophobia scholarship reads religion as a salient axis of difference. — connects to: Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175