As discussed throughout this Afterword, or shown in the various essays below, these recent decisions, transitions, and initiatives have prioritized (1) the completion of generational transitions, (2) the establishment of a bricks-and-mortar community center or campus, Campo Sano, in Deland, Florida, and (3) the publication of a community course book focused on systemic injustice countered by systemic advocacy. Likewise, these choices reflect our periodic engagement of self-critical study and communal strategic planning grounded in the early functions, guideposts, values, and postulates that we identified collectively two decades ago (and since) to anchor our programmatic work through good times as well as bad. For a recent and expansive discussion of LatCrit theory, community and praxis, and their framing and rooting over the years, including the ongoing initiatives and generational transition resulting from our last round of strategic study and planning, see Steven W.
Racial capitalism provides a baseline analysis of how capitalist systems function inextricably from race. We contribute to the development of the concept of racial capitalism by arguing that as property is the lingua franca of capitalism, racialized, gendered property is the institution that undergirds racial capitalism. Even if we could eliminate the racial and gender bias of the capitalist system, the very disposition of the institution of property itself is so inherently racialized and gendered through the human interactions by which it is coconstituted that the resultant property-based capitalism is also raced and gendered. Those observations are the backdrop for a more probing set of arguments about the role of gender and race in shaping the property narrative, which we explore in a series of examples that reveal the inherently racialized and gendered nature of property in the extant capitalist system. Our engagement opens space in this era of racial and gender reckoning to call upon property to become a site of advancing new or contested social values of justice or equality for communities that exist at the margins of society.
The capabilities approach is a theoretical model that focuses on building human capacity to achieve a range of individual, personal outcomes. The theory has been most notably articulated by Amartya Sen, a development economist, and Martha Nussbaum, an Aristotelian philosopher. The theory generally focuses on social justice theory and comparisons regarding quality of life. The hallmark of the capabilities approach is to consider societies through the lens of what each person is able to do and to be. It stands in contrast to development theories that analyze the development of nations by reference to aggregate measures of well‐being, such as gross domestic product, and instead contemplates the capacities with which the society endows each individual, allowing the individual to pursue his or her own ends.
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