Genocide, Race, Capitalism: Synopsis of Formation within the Modern World-system

Authors

  • James V. Fenelon California State University, San Bernardino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2016.607

Abstract

This article reviews and synpsizes race-based slavery and genocide extant across the Americas for a half millennia of colonial capitalist development, and identifies four major phases;  conquest, colonization, capitalism, and hegemonic global capitalism. Examples of genocide are presented for each phase, and differences between Catholic driven Latin America conquest and Protestant driven Anglo American genocidal domination are delineated and put into thelongue durée of the modern world-system.

Author Biography

James V. Fenelon, California State University, San Bernardino

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies at California State University

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Published

2016-03-22

How to Cite

Fenelon, J. V. (2016). Genocide, Race, Capitalism: Synopsis of Formation within the Modern World-system. Journal of World-Systems Research, 22(1), 23–30. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2016.607

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2016): Special Issue: Ireland in the World-System

Section

Symposium: Race in the Capitalist World-System

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