UNIT 2: FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM

Topics

• Nguyen's essay

• Overview of Feminist Critiques of Racial Capitalism

• Review of "production" and "labor power"

• "free worker" in Marx's text

• "capital" and the production of disposable people

• Makeovers are technologies of the self because they train women to be the agent and receiver of care during this time of instability

• Reading how people are produced by social systems
• Social systems reproduce themselves by this process
• Social system we are talking about: Capitalism

Feminist critiques of racial captialism

• Maintains that capitalism's origins and historical development are inseparable from the history of "race" as a discourse that produces and justifies hierarchical definitions
• There is no capitalism that is not racial
• Capitalism and race are entangled