- Ruth Gilmore says that capitalism will stop being racial capitalism, when all the white people disappear from the story. What’s the connection between “whiteness” and racism, do you think? Ruth Gilmore says that capitalism won’t stop being racial capitalism if all the white people disappear she states that capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it.
2. Gilmore makes the point that criminals are actually being created by the criminal justice and prison system (she says “the category of ‘criminal person’ can be perpetuated”). According to Gilmore, how does that happen, how does the prison system create new “criminals“? Do you agree with her view?
Gilmore argues that in her view prisons concentrate surpluses she says that instead of all those prisons that were made years ago in the 1960s in California they should’ve built universities, factories, veteran housing, or parks. Gilmore also mentions that in criminalization there has to be a steady stream of criminals to be eligible to be categorized as criminal this is the reason why prisons and criminals keep happening since the sentences have to be longer and this causes people’s criminal behavior to grow.
3. Describe how you understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”?
The liberation struggle is specific to the needs and struggles of people where they are and that where has many dimensions.
