Department of Anthropology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Research Article
Racial and Gender Inequality: The Stagnant Economy of the Marginalized Synopsis
Author(s): 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 dicho.. View more»