Marxism

Question 1

Cox

Answer 1

Exploiter and exploited relationship - “ethnic majority = white men and black and minority ethnic groups
Western - forcefully take over globe - east/ less developed countries/taking land from indigenous
White people developed capitalism and therefore they first developed racism

Question 2

IDEA 1 - Castles and Kosack

Answer 2

Reserve army of labour - relation to black and ethnic groups
Source - The Guardian - Cost of Salad Documentary

Question 3

IDEA 2 - Castles and Kosack

Answer 3

Countries in Europe turned to immigrants labour to provide a necessary cheap pool of workers
Divide and rule
Immigrants could be scapegoated i.e. blamed for problems

Question 4

Hall

Answer 4

The moral panic that developed over the crime of mugging in the 1970s
Moral panic over black criminality at the time created a diversion away from the wider economic crisis

Question 5

Lawrence

Answer 5

1970s and 1980s for 3 reasons:
1. Ruling class created and reinforced new ideologies around ideas of ‘British Nation’, ‘British peoples’
2. High unemployment and economic instability and immigrants came to be viewed, source of problem
3. Different cultures of immigrants viewed in negative way, threat to British society, which was suffering high crime rates, break down on traditional family values