I recently spoke with journalist Ben Piven about the relationship between race and economics in the United States. He talks at length about the varieties of racial discourse in the US in the wake of the election, and how we can think about a way forward.
Adam Burgos, a postdoctoral fellow at Bucknell University who studies the politics of race, said that economic and racial experiences are inextricably linked in a complex nexus.
“You can’t pull those two apart,” Burgos said. “The cultural changes that have enabled more nonwhite people to make at least a modicum of progress reflect this interdependence.”
“White ‘economic anxiety’ is only understandable though the relationship between economics and race.”
Check out the article, The Unbearable Whiteness Of Trumpistan Illuminates Half-truths Of ‘Racial Realism’, at Huffington Post.