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Abstract

Racial and Gender Inequality: The Stagnant Economy of the Marginalized Synopsis

Ephraim Jake Jacobs*

The marginalized in society are mostly blacks and women. Although most developing countries received political independence after the colonial era, this was not accompanied by economic empowerment. Most of the marginalized are poor and unemployed while they lack access to financial institutions that could serve to empower them economically. They are mostly found in markets that are informal in central business districts trying to make a living. The paper comprises of two theoretical frameworks such as postcolonialism and feminism to describe the world as currently patriarchal, white, classist, male and racist. Qualitative research design has been chosen to undergo the study. Edward Said's work called the orient has been utilise to describe how the western missionaries took it upon themselves to 'modernize' the natives they found in developing countries using dichotomies that discriminated the natives as being uncivilized, barbaric and unmodern, which legitimised the West to arrogate to itself the right to colonize the inhabitants found in these said countries.

Published Date: 2023-09-08; Received Date: 2023-08-08