Lisa Cacho Capitalism And Poverty

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Capitalism and Poverty: Capitalism is the dominant vision of what shapes our society. It is a system that is almost made for some and those opposing the system are often seen as deviant. In Racialized Haunting by Lisa Cacho, talks about how a person’s death because they were “deviant”. “Even if we had attempted to circumvent the devaluing processes of race and gender by citing other readily recognizable signs and signifiers of value, such as legality, heteronormativity, American citizenship, higher education, affluence, morality, and respectability, we still would not have had evidence to narrate him as a productive, worthy, and responsible citizen.” (26 Cacho)

Neoliberalism: Ronald Reagan brought this idea into place in the 1980s tying in

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