Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
Zophia Edwards
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting nonwhite racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, are race neutral or willfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. Even if they do address legacies of colonialism, they ignore the ongoing racial logics of oppression embedded therein.
Topics & Concepts
OppressionCapitalismCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)RacismRace (biology)PandemicInequalityColonialism2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPolitical economySociologySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)PoliticsPolitical scienceDevelopment economicsGender studiesEconomicsLawVirologyMedicineDiseaseMathematicsInfectious disease (medical specialty)Mathematical analysisOutbreakPathologyEmployment and Welfare Studies