nomic dynamics and the legal, cultural, the growing marginalization of the working class and the creation of a so-called ‘black underclass’ are the result of declining manufacturing employment and growing international competition, which hit blacks hardest because institutional and employment discrimination have concentrated them disproportionately in the most vulnerable occupations.” To brake this quote down I have to put it in my own words. Over time racial control or enslavement has created a special class formation or deposition among blacks. Their internal make-up is different in amount and quality of whites. There are reminded of their lower status legally, culturally and by being confined to a lower outer limit of social standings of the working class, the black underclass. This was used to explain to you in a different way the globalization effects blacks. Thomas starts on the 3 things we must look at in the race and class analyses. First we must look at the boundaries of the class and what factors are placing these groups into their class. Also we have to find the similarities to other classes. Then look at their interaction and see what the impact is on the interaction. Then find the problems that are from the class interaction. 2nd we must see what relationship the classes and their collective identity have. 3rd we have to analyze the interaction among the race class and their ranking. Plus determine the effect of economic and social arrangement on the existing classes. In putting blacks in a class many problems can come about in the analyzing process. One problem is putting the black capitalist class with the black middle class. “It is important to analyze the historical conditions responsible for maintaining its feeble existence because the black capitalist’s weak state could well be a major aspect of modern racial inequality. The black capitalist is the victim of a long history of illegal prop...
