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The concepts being introduced and discussed in the two short articles surround social justice. The ideologies address racial hierarchies as a result of capitalism, the impacts of oppressive systems, and dismantling these institutions to create social and racial equity. When imagining racial capitalism as a framework to help us better understand societal barriers and institutions that perpetuate these barriers, we can acknowledge the historical injustice that has been created in unequitable environments for certain demographics (Táíwò , 2023). Racial capitalism explains how the labor of people of color has been disposable to those who uphold the harmful institutions of colonialism and White supremacy (Táíwò , 2023). Moreover, we can examine the impacts of racial capitalism and how it has manifested into the withholding of resources, especially funding, in communities of people of color that have been racialized and commodified by systems of oppression (Táíwò , 2023).
Racial capitalism is inspiring movements of dismantling systems of oppression that demand equity and social justice. These forms of equity and social justice are inclusive of harmful institutions, but also the ways communities have internalized these oppressive systems (Clair, 2023). In many ways marginalized communities have adopted many of these structures that result and sustain social stratification (Clair, 2023). However, by acknowledging these despotic systems, BIPOC people can continue to liberate themselves and reclaim and redefine their identities and communities, implementing a larger social change (Clair, 2023). Similar to concerns raised by Ruha Benjamin (Clair, 2023) in regards to those who maintain their narratives of allyship by removing “harmful racialized language”, but do not support or uplift the voices and work of those said marginalized groups, we can make connections to this in other academics (McCreary & Milligan, 2018).
Liberal limitations are prevalent on their efforts of support, especially in regard to environmental concerns in Indigenous and Black communities. The alarming dispossession in these communities are largely connected to racial capitalism and settler colonialism (McCreary & Milligan, 2018). These concepts have been addressed on many different platforms and are the key concepts being explored in the short articles for Article 1. One can identify the ways in which institutions that uphold White supremacy or colonialism in any form are harmful to the self-determination of BIPOC peoples individually and the communities which they belong to. A common theme amongst all the information being digested is that in order to dismantle these historical injustices and address contemporary social epidemics experienced by marginalized groups as a result of the institutionalization of these ideologies which leave BIPOC peoples expendable in Western society is to disrupt settler colonialism and White supremacy (McCreary & Milligan, 2018). [Show Less]