『솔로몬의 노래』에 나타난 미국 흑인들의 자본주의적 생존 방식의 문제
The Problems of African Americans’ Capitalist Way of Survival in Song of Solomon
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This research argues that African Americans’ pursuit of the capitalist way of life can cause a variety of serious problems when it comes to their survival. They believe it is the only good way to survive and live a decent life to mimic white people’s capitalist way of life. The upper middle-class blacks in the U.S. think they could pass for whites and get the power and freedom as much as white people do when they accumulate more wealth. However, the nature of capitalist values and ideologies makes African Americans’ life even worse and makes them subordinate to whites in the society. The more black people try to imitate the capitalist way of life, the more they confront fetishism, the racial hierarchy between blacks and whites, and the conflicts in the black communities. Thus, for blacks in the U.S., accumulating wealth and internalizing capitalist culture like white people will not help them survive and set them free at all. Rather, by giving up accumulation, vanity, and fetishism that weigh them down, African Americans can get a better chance to live a healthier life with their strong identity.
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This research argues that African Americans’ pursuit of the capitalist way of life can cause a variety of serious problems when it comes to their survival. They believe it is the only good way to survive and live a decent life to mimic white people’s capitalist way of life. The upper middle-class blacks in the U.S. think they could pass for whites and get the power and freedom as much as white people do when they accumulate more wealth. However, the nature of capitalist values and ideologies makes African Americans’ life even worse and makes them subordinate to whites in the society. The more black people try to imitate the capitalist way of life, the more they confront fetishism, the racial hierarchy between blacks and whites, and the conflicts in the black communities. Thus, for blacks in the U.S., accumulating wealth and internalizing capitalist culture like white people will not help them survive and set them free at all. Rather, by giving up accumulation, vanity, and fetishism that weigh them down, African Americans can get a better chance to live a healthier life with their strong identity.
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