Racism, Capitalism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racism, Capitalism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic write by Zophia Edwards. This book was released on 2021-10-25. Racism, Capitalism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. This pamphlet explains how the unremitting super-exploitation of Black and other nonwhite racialized labor in the core and the periphery persisted throughout the COVID-19 crisis through the lens of Black radical scholarship on racism and capitalism. Edwards not only captures how people of African descent have been disproportionately impacted by COVID, but also the historical, sociological and structural roots of the inequalities that affect vulnerable groups across the world, tied to what she has described as the architecture of the global economy linked to race and gender. She represents a refreshing voice in our time and part of a Caribbean radical tradition in the spirit of Claudia Jones, Eric Williams, Oliver C. Cox, and C.L.R. James, from her native Trinidad, as well as Guyana's Walter Rodney and Andaiye.
Racial Equity, COVID-19, and Public Policy
Racial Equity, COVID-19, and Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racial Equity, COVID-19, and Public Policy write by Elsie L. Harper-Anderson. This book was released on 2023-02-13. Racial Equity, COVID-19, and Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Racial Equity, COVID-19, and Public Policy: The Triple Pandemic focuses on the health, economic, and justice impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racial equity. The book does not simply document the problems made worse by the pandemic, but it provides historical context for issues that rose to the surface in new ways, the existing inequities revealed during COVID-19, as well as policy responses to those issues. The volume is distinguished in its focus on the implications for racial equity through an examination of both existing public policy and new ideas for change. The chapters in this volume demonstrate the ways in which this period of American history and politics is unique, most notably in the convergence of major threats to public health, economic livelihood, and access to justice. This “triple pandemic” will be felt in the coming years and will continue to unfold, depending upon the adequacy of the contemporary response. This edited volume is designed to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of issues including policing, housing, business, disaster response, education, immigration, vaccine distribution, reentry of justice-involved individuals, and the responses to public protests—all with a unifying focus on racial inequities and social justice concerns that elevated these issues to broader public attention and political response. This coalescing emphasis on public policy as both a cause and effect to address these issues makes the book a unique contribution to the public policy literature. This book responds to audiences seeking a better understanding of the events that occurred, the conditions that set the stage for their eruption into wider public view, and what might be done to prevent social and racial inequities in the future.
Crisis and Contagion
Crisis and Contagion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis and Contagion write by Ian McKay. This book was released on 2023-10-17. Crisis and Contagion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and Merrill Singer explore capitalism’s organic crisis and the ways it has made this and future pandemics inevitable. Nora Loreto, Tithi Bhattacharya, Chandrima Chakraborty, Merlin Chowkwanyun, and Sanjay Nepal discuss the experiences of ordinary people in the pandemic. J. Michael Ryan, Laura Spinney, Naomi Klein, and Noam Chomsky explore the long-term effects and likely historical legacy of a pandemic that has changed millions of lives–and, maybe, the trajectory of human civilization. These scholars propose that to understand the impact of Covid-19, we have to understand the conflictual history of capitalism–and to ward off future pandemics, we need to start building a post-capitalist alternative to the disease-generating and highly unequal global neoliberal order. As capitalist forces work to shove what we have learned from the Covid-19 pandemic down the memory hole, Crisis and Contagion offers a must-read for those wanting to seize this moment of change and revolution.
COVID-19 and The Political Economy of Racism
COVID-19 and The Political Economy of Racism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook COVID-19 and The Political Economy of Racism write by Monica M Taylor. This book was released on 2021-02-14. COVID-19 and The Political Economy of Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic from a social justice lens. A social justice lens carries an obligation to humanity and health and human rights protections which requires a redistribution of resources and opportunities to provide the most vulnerable members in a society, the opportunity to live a healthy life that includes social, mental and physical well-being. In a pandemic such as COVID-19, which is mounted with economic destruction and tragic losses in our elderly populations, racial and ethnic groups, people who live in poverty and persons in detention centers, social justice logic should be at the forefront of all decision-making and all political communications.Using theories of the political economy of racism, the intentional and historical mistreatment of Blacks in America is discussed extensively. In addition, this book does not ignore the exploitation of Black and Brown populations in the criminal justice system or the enduring political, economic and social inequities that foster health disparities...and now, added disparities in cases and deaths from COVID-19. With capitalism at the heart of it all, this is unconscionable and disheartening as this happens in parallel with our current public health crisis.
The Pandemic Divide
The Pandemic Divide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pandemic Divide write by Gwendolyn L. Wright. This book was released on 2022-08-22. The Pandemic Divide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As COVID-19 made inroads in the United States in spring 2020, a common refrain rose above the din: “We’re all in this together.” However, the full picture was far more complicated—and far less equitable. Black and Latinx populations suffered illnesses, outbreaks, and deaths at much higher rates than the general populace. Those working in low-paid jobs and those living in confined housing or communities already disproportionately beset by health problems were particularly vulnerable. The contributors to The Pandemic Divide explain how these and other racial disparities came to the forefront in 2020. They explore COVID-19’s impact on multiple arenas of daily life—including wealth, health, housing, employment, and education—while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate the full force of the pandemic. Most crucially, the contributors offer concrete public policy solutions that would allow the nation to respond effectively to future crises and improve the long-term well-being of all Americans. Contributors. Fenaba Addo, Steve Amendum, Leslie Babinski, Sandra Barnes, Mary T. Bassett, Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Kisha Daniels, William A. Darity Jr., Melania DiPietro, Jane Dokko, Fiona Greig, Adam Hollowell, Lucas Hubbard, Damon Jones, Steve Knotek, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Henry Clay McKoy Jr., N. Joyce Payne, Erica Phillips, Eugene Richardson, Paul Robbins, Jung Sakong, Marta Sánchez, Melissa Scott, Kristen Stephens, Joe Trotter, Chris Wheat, Gwendolyn L. Wright
