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What’s New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t) – Spectre Journal

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Enzo Rossi explain how "woke" racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.

What’s New about Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t) Wokewashing and the Limits of Representation Enzo Rossi and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò December 18, 2020 doi.org/10.63478/Q2S3UC3I During the 2016 Democratic primary campaign, Hillary Clinton challenged Bernie Sanders with this line: “if we broke up the banks tomorrow… would that end racism?” The unspoken part of the message seemed to be something like this: leaving the banks to get on with business as usual while making sure their boards are impeccably diverse would end racism—and that would make the banks OK, regardless of Sanders’s concern abo

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