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Which of the following passages illustrates the relationship between racial capitalism and racialization?

-"Capital can only be capital when it is accumulating, and it can only accumulate by producing and moving through relations of severe inequality among human groups—capitalists with the means of production/workers without the means of subsistence, creditors/debtors, conquerors of land made property/the dispossessed and removed. These antinomies of accumulation require loss, disposability, and the unequal differentiation of human value, and racism enshrines the inequalities that capitalism requires. Most obviously, it does this by displacing the uneven life chances that are inescapably part of capitalist social relations onto fictions of differing human capacities, historically race" (Melamed 77).

-"The possessive investment in whiteness is not a simple matter of black and white; all racialized minority groups have suffered from it, albeit to different degrees and in different ways. The African slave trade began in earnest only after large-scale Native American slavery proved impractical in North America. The abolition of slavery led to the importation of low-wage labor from Asia. Legislation banning immigration from Asia set the stage for the recruitment of low-wage labor from Mexico. The new racial categories that emerged in each of these eras all revolved around applying racial labels to "nonwhite" groups in order to stigmatize and exploit them while at the same time preserving the value of whiteness" (Lipsitz 2-3).

-"We often associate racial capitalism with the central features of white supremacist capitalist development, including slavery, colonialism, genocide, incarceration regimes, migrant exploitation, and contemporary racial warfare. Yet we also increasingly recognize that contemporary racial capitalism deploys liberal and multicultural terms of inclusion to value and devalue forms of humanity differentially to fit the needs of reigning state- capital orders" (Melamed 77)..

-all of the above

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All of the above passages illustrate the relationship between racial capitalism and racialization. The first passage explains how racism enshrines the inequalities that capitalism requires, displacing the uneven life chances that are part of capitalist social relations onto fictions of differing human capacities, historically race. The second passage explains how the possessive investment in whiteness stigmatizes and exploits nonwhite groups while preserving the value of whiteness. The third passage discusses how contemporary racial capitalism deploys liberal and multicultural terms of inclusion to value and devalue forms of humanity differentially to fit the needs of reigning state-capital orders. All three passages suggest that racialization and racial hierarchies are central to the functioning of capitalist systems and are used to justify and perpetuate economic inequalities.

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