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Eastland-Underwood, Jessica (2023) The whiteness of markets : Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric. New Political Economy, 28 (4). pp. 662-676. doi:10.1080/13563467.2022.2159354 ISSN 1356-3467.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2022.2159354
Abstract
Building on the burgeoning raced markets literature, I examine the function of markets in colour-blind racism. I argue that ‘the market’ is a useful rhetorical mechanism in everyday political thinking that reproduces white supremacy. To demonstrate this, I look at the work of white supremacist and early American political economist: Thomas Roderick Dew. Focusing on his political economy lectures, I find that the emergent study of markets gave Dew the language to frame the American racial order as the product of natural laws that generate social good. I suggest that the efficacy of his pro-slavery argumentation is contingent on an imbalanced imagination of market histories that over-represents the white experience. Using an un-colourblinding historiography, I amplify the different experiences of Native Americans and enslaved Black Americans as well as challenging the idealisation of the white settler, which exposes the assumptions behind Dew’s pro-slavery rhetoric. Turning to a children’s podcast in the twenty-first century, I reveal how ‘the market’ is a reconfiguration of the same rhetorical strategy, where the white experience is over-represented and idealised, ultimately reproducing the material outcomes of white supremacy: maintaining and deepening the racial wealth divide.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | E History America > E151 United States (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Race discrimination -- Economic aspects, Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions, Racism -- United States, Minorities -- Economic conditions, Marketing -- Social aspects, United States -- Economic conditions, Marketing research, Race -- Economic aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | New Political Economy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1356-3467 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 662-676 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13563467.2022.2159354 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 December 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 February 2023 | ||||||||
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