Class Struggle for the 21st Century: Racial Inequality, International Solidarity, and the New Apartheid Politics
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Wilma Dunaway and Donald Clelland's article, "Moving toward theory for the 21 st Century: The centrality of nonwestern hemispheres to world ethnic/ racial inequality," is structured around a contradiction between the interrogation of global apartheid theory's political correctness and reverse racism and the scathing, yet hyperbolic, critique of the semiperipheries as the most egregious site for the reproduction of racial inequality in the world today.This contradiction is articulated in the form of a disavowal of race: On the one hand, they criticize global apartheid theory and whiteness studies scholars, and rightly so, for enforcing a Eurocentric conception of race that racially codifies the increasing polarization of wealth in the non-western world into a dichotomy between "white affluence" and "colored poverty/ stagnation."The claims of global apartheid theory, they suggest, are undercut by the ascent of the transnational capitalist class (Robinson 2014) and the rising power of the semiperiphery as a neo-colonialist and sub-imperial power block which "causes, contributes to, and exacerbates" ethnic/ racial inequality around the world today. 1 1 The authors use extensive data on income levels and DGP per capita to demonstrate the ascent of the semiperipheries, in order to delineate ten different ways by which nonwestern semiperipheries allegedly perpetuate and aggravate
Author: Jamil Khader
Institution: Bethlehem University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2744690225