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Article
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
"We are heading into an era where unbridled greed, racism, sexism, and other forms of hate are, once again, unabashedly proclaimed to the world without remorse. This turn from the once negative association with racism and attempts to avoid being labeled racist has became increasingly evident in the U.S. since 2014, when, astoundingly, a string of White police killings of unarmed Black men went unpunished or unprosecuted (Monzó & McLaren, 2014). In some of these cases the police officers evidenced a complete lack of compassion for the men in their final seconds of life. National coverage of these events made clear to would be haters and predators that racism was still very prevalent and deep rooted in U.S. society. The White supremacist and misogynist venom that U.S. republican hopeful, Donald Trump, is selling in his 2016 presidential campaign has not been seen since the presidency of Ronald Reagan labeled millions of America’s unemployed as potential welfare cheats and created the idea that welfare fraud was a nationwide epidemic. The welfare queen—a lazy Black and Brown female living off honest (White) taxpayers’ money—was seeded in the soil of America’s structural unconscious (Litchman, 1982)."
Recommended Citation
Monzó, L.D. & McLaren, P. (2016). Challenging the violence and invisibility against women of Color – A Marxist imperative. Iberoamérica Social: revista-red de estudios sociales. Retrieved from http://iberoamericasocial.com/?s=Challenging+the+violence+and+invisibility+against+women+of+Color+%E2%80%93+A+Marxist+imperative
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This article was originally published in Iberoamérica Social: revista-red de estudios sociales in 2016.