... of rioting. Young males who are unable to fulfil their male role as workers are therefore reconstructed as an idle, criminal and socially excluded 'under class,' and this is a reading which can be applied both to the events of London and Ferguson and to the discourse which shaped them. In the case of London and Ferguson, class, social exclusion and ... social class element and geographic model of the riots drew attention to some intersectionality, but also removed gender and race from the discourse by instead focusing on social exclusion, and how it can contribute to a rioting clas...

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... white supremacy" as opposed to "racist" when describing the institutionalized oppression based on "race," stating, "-white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black ... people of negative attitudes typically held by white people about blackness. "White supremacy" is also useful when referring to how black people are able to exercise "w...

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... those economic factors which affect the entire class as opposed to a particular problem contained wholly within and specific to the particular group within the class. The question for Wilson is how can this be accomplished. He believes the answer to lie in the formation of a national multiracial coalition. The first half of the book addresses what the author perceives to be ... ...

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... light the symbiotic relationship between government (who wished to crush growing labor unionism) and big capital (who wanted lower wages by replacing expensive white workers with cheap black labor) but how capitalisms interests would override that of race in order to increase profitability . In contrast with Capitals interest of profit making the Apartheid government's goal was that of the creation of ... go back to the Bantustans in order to preserve their claim of land occupation therefore creating a cycle of temporary migrancy and Bantustan living (Wolpe,1972,436). This example showed...

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