We Can’t Let Corporations ‘Blackwash’ Capitalism
In recent weeks we have seen corporations embrace anti-racist rhetoric – but many continue to pay minority workers poverty wages and bust their unions. That’s a PR exercise, not fighting inequality.
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Cedric Johnson is associate professor of African American studies and political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
In recent weeks we have seen corporations embrace anti-racist rhetoric – but many continue to pay minority workers poverty wages and bust their unions. That’s a PR exercise, not fighting inequality.