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This 3 page paper explores some of the connections between the economy and black Americans, both historically and today. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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of their history; they are intimately connected with the economic history of the country as well. This paper explores some of the connections between the economy and black Americans, both
historically and today. Discussion Racism is an ugly word that describes an ugly belief: that there are some people who are inherently better than others because they have a different
skin color. Racism is still alive and well today, its just gone "underground" because its no longer politically correct to openly discriminate against others on the basis of their race.
When it was not illegal, but was in fact the law of the land, racism became the foundation of one of the most inhuman systems in the history of America:
slavery. But the slaves who worked the fields and picked the cotton on the great southern plantations were directly responsible for the prosperity of the plantation owners; without them, the
entire system would have failed. Author Ahmed Shawki, however, suggests that the connection is not as direct as it may seem. He writes that the "dominant historical view of
slavery places ideas--in particular, racial ideas--as the motor force of history ...By doing so ... historians completely underestimate the economic connection between capitalism and the development of racism" (Jacobs, 2006).
Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both America and those European nations that participated in some way
in the system (Jacobs, 2006). The importance of slavery to both the U.S. economy and to the continued expansion of capitalism meant that racist ideologies had to be developed to
justify the continuation of the "peculiar institution" (Jacobs, 2006). When slavery was outlawed, the ideology that proclaimed slavery was necessary to sustain the economy was twisted to continue the
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