Annotated Bibliography: Is Capitalism Gendered And Racialized?

Acker, Joan. “Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized?.” Race Class and Gender An anthology. Ed. Heather McElwain. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2015. 101-109. Print In Acker’s writing he states that Capitalism was gendered and radicalized. Capitalism was mainly powered by white men. Throughout the start of Capitalism and even now. White men in small groups still hold power within capitalism. Due to history it is proven that white men were creators when capitalism was created it was in places around the world were while males were already entitled to power. Places were gender and race division was already created. Before capitalism was a thing it was slave trade. Were males who didn’t care about families sold them to buyers, but when slavery was …show more content…
When you look at the race part of it as described by Henderson and Tickameyer, you see that majority of the population that are within the poverty lines are minorities that include African Americans, Hispanics, and any other race that isn't white. Public Assistance is mainly used by African Americans, which they show they misuse the benefits because they are lazy and don't want to work for the money, but poverty reforms don't necessarily allow them enough to help them escape poverty. This is because the percentage of African Americans increased and the reforms become stricter. In other cases it also goes for immigrants, mainly latino women it interprets that they misuse the power of public assistance. Many of them are accused of being Welfare Queens, which are women who have multiple kids just to receive more funds from the government and those funds are being misused. Now looking on the part of Class and Gender is a mixture when you look at white women in the lower class. Presented as that they are lazy and are considered Welfare Queens. These are the people who live in rural areas. Aside from the women, the white men in this lower class standing and area are depicted as hillbillies and/or white trash. Looking into a much lower class base on societal standards, the women of Appalachia are the lowest of the white community and the ones who suffer the most poverty. At the end of it, all …show more content…
This was mainly by the K.K.K. along with police involvement came into effect. They contributed to this form of “genocide” to rid of people of color in lieu of them lynching them they shot them. Ward goes on and tells us how it became the image of the government because the police department made it seem as if it was their policy set by the government to rid of people of color. State officials, along with anyone who had a power within the government at some point had some affiliation with the K.K.K. in that way they were able to allow these events to occur furthermore allowed this form of genocide to continue primarily in the south. It didn’t stop there either to cover up they did kill dozens of youths that were of color under the Jim Crow juvenile justice system. What they considered back in those days was slow violence was a weaker punishment which they just neglected the colored youth in the juvenile justice. When it came to rehabilitating them, they administered whipping with no care of actually helping them develop. Ward goes on telling that for those people who believe that people of color have gained a considerable amount of rights. They should review the reports by the courts plus police show evidence of black depravity. He also brings up the point that teaching in criminology today brings up the race to a high standard