Marxist Racial Inequality Analysis

This discrepancy in the payment amounts is relevant to males as well as females. Although both genders experience a pay gap within their own gender groups, minority women face a larger pay gap, not only because they are not white actresses, but also because they are females. Male minority actors are able to get away with more when it comes to unequal wages. The main question here is: why does race have an effect on wages received by same gender actors/actresses? Racial inequality has been an issue for many years, but the definition of what racial inequality really stems from has been even more complicated than it seems to be at first. By looking at race through the Marxist lens, this may show some enlightenment on the matter of the pay gap at hand. To start off, it is clear that Marxism does play a role in the determination of race, as presented in Desire for Race. However, it is clear that there is a divide among individual Marxists. When it comes to race and economics, Karl Marx was a very strong
The main reason behind the slave trade was for cheap labor, which allowed farmers to gain a higher profit from selling their crops and goods. With time, the idea of forcing people to work for someone was questioned as a result of ethics. Slave owners had the attitude that those they were “employing” (black slaves) were inferior economically. And so, slaves were dehumanized to the point where they were treated no better than a piece of old furniture (Smedley). The idea that someone’s economic inferiority was a viable reason for their ill-treatment was replaced by that of a more racial inferiority (blacks were inferior to whites) in order to satisfy the arising ethical disagreement. From this point in time, race became more of a prominent notion as a result of expansionism and slave