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Emma Dabiri on history and belonging
How We Live Now with Katherine May
The Origins of Class Solidarity
The first example of the notion of a white race and a black race being codified into law is in colonial Barbados in 1661. The two exploited populations who will soon begin to understand themselves as black and white can see the landlord pass as a common enemy but what happened after race is invented is those class solidarity are overridden by racial identity. Catherine May: I grew up in like a very working class part of Dublin and um I just thought that I just felt so strongly that like a lot of the liberal mainstream social media type of anti-racism doesn't resonate at all with kind of the white people you grew up with.
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