Ruthe: If race is the constant apologea for that changing capitalist systems, changing forms of inequality, then we shouldn't be so surprised that race and raceism are always changing. She says if we are going to make major political economic change, that cong t require articulating new forms of identity as well in the context of fighting capitalism. Ruthe: Racial discourses are there to normalize the abundant and frequently dstabilized systems of domination and subordination.