Alienation, Racial Capitalism, and the Racialization of Palestinians

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ID2371036
AuthorsDavid Embrick (0000-0002-4380-053X, University of Connecticut, corresponding author), Johnny Williams (0009-0007-2521-4581, Trinity College), Johnny Eric Williams (Trinity College, USA)
Year2023
Volume49
Issue6
Pages939-951
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/08969205231172730
OpenAlexW4376116115
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited16

In this paper, we outline the contours of the history of oppression toward Palestinians to discern how the settler colonial racial capitalist state of Israel generates alienation in Palestinians. To accomplish this, we explore how the Global North disregards and/or participates in propping up Israel's oppressive structural processes for stripping Palestinians of their land, resources, and identity. This includes the Palestinian healthcare system that has suffered decades of deliberate neglect, under-development, and strategic fragmentation, which hindered its coronavirus disease response. We conclude with implications and suggestions for rethinking not only how Palestinians are racialized and alienated as 'others' in a settler colonial racial capitalist system of oppression, but how the slow process of identity erosion (and perversion) works to dehumanize and justify the dispossession of Palestinians

Aesthetics · Alienation · Capitalism · Colonialism · Criminology · Dehumanization · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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