Ethnicity

Question 1

Cox
Relationship between?
What did European nations do? (2) (exploited?)
What race was superior?
What does this mean? (who created capitalism)
What did this lead to? (2)

Answer 1

Relationship between capitalism and racism
Capitalism leads to racism
European nations conquered areas of the globe and exploited the workforce

White Europeans superior to other races therefore white people created capitalism also developing racism- idea of slavery
Growth of capitalism

Question 2

Castles and Kosack
Studied what group in Europe?
Where where ethnic minorities concentrated?
What prevents ethnic minorities from getting a good job?
What does the bourgeoisie encourage? Why (3)

Answer 2

Studied immigrant workers in Europe
- concentrated in low pay low status work = reserve army
Discrimination prevents ethnic minorities from getting a good job
The bourgeoisie encourages racism as it:
Weakens the proletariats power
Divide and rule
Scapegoat

Question 3

Neo Marxist 
Solomos et al
Causes of ethnic inequality (5)
Investigated what kind of attitudes? Periods?
What had emerged?

Answer 3

Ethnic inequalities are caused by capitalism, economic factors, government policies, cultures of ethnic minorities and the white working class

Investigated racist attitudes in the 70s and 80s and claimed that new racism had emerged

Question 4

Neo Marxist
Lawrence
Reasons for the emergence of new racism (3)

Answer 4

New racism had emerged because of
The ruling class developing ideologies such as ‘British people’ ‘British nation’
‘British culture’
Immigrants became seen as the source of unemployment and economic instability
Cultures of immigrant groups: seen as a threat to British society who were experiencing high crime rates and breakdown of family values