Lo sfruttamento della razza. Le nuove gerarchie della segregazione

When Cedric J. Robinson deconstructed the concept of racial capitalism, he explained that the history of capitalism has been heavily based on its link to racism and the exploitation of enslaved people. Although slavery was formally abolished centuries ago, today it is possible to revive this concept to describe the way in which social and racial division of labour is applied to racialised and/or migrant people in Europe and Italy. In this context, migrants and/or racialised people find themselves in dehumanising paradoxes: on the one hand, they serve the country's economy, but at the same time they must be expelled or marginalised, in a blackmailing limbo often made up of irregularities and semi-slavery systems. We are faced with a form of institutional racism which, precisely because it is perpetrated by the state, is inherent in the laws in force, created specifically for a particular social and racial category, preventing the self-determination of immigrants and/or racialised people. This book deconstructs systemic racism, dismantles the rhetoric of “ethnic replacement”, and illustrates the production of subordination and deprivation of rights that occurs along colour lines.