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Assignment #9

According to his text, “Aberrations in Black” Roderick Ferguson characterized the relationship between property, capital, and prostitution with the “queer of color” analysis. Under the background of the society of industrialization and capitalism, the social status were seems more clearly, especially between different races and gender.

Property was a commodity and social standard for people. The property can be consider as a land or slaves. The owner provides land for labors to producing foods, but the labors should pay or giving their foods for owner as a interests. Slaves can also be treat as an owner’s property, the owner had right to sell them.

Within capital, there was a social class or hierarchy between the workers, depends on the ability they have. The working wages were also pay within different social class. Women and children were consider the lowest class, they got the lowest pay but working for highest amount of works.

Under the society of capitalism, women were consider in lower class, low pay and lack of working chance make their lives become more difficult. The prostitution treated women with no respect, they were being treated and consider as a product that could be selling and exchanging in the market.

According to the text, Roderick defined the “Queer of Color” analysis as ‘the interrogates social formations as the intersections or race, gender, sexuality, and class, with particular interest in how the formations correspond with and diverge from nationalist ideals.’ In other words, queer of color was as a kind of social reconstruction which involved the idea of Marxism and capitalism, also interacted with different race, gender, and social class.