http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/material-ideology Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 24 May 2026 07:57:11 -0400 Sun, 24 May 2026 07:57:11 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/846/race-as-a-material-ideology By Jason Walsh - The persistence of racism within the working class is a fundamental problem for any Marxist analysis of race, and there have been several attempts to solve this problem within the Marxist tradition. Most traditional understandings, however, turn out to be theoretically inconsistent and lacking in terms of explanatory power when confronted with the historical realities of Italian, Irish, and African-American labor relations in the early 20th century. I will argue that bringing Louis Althusser's theories of the state and ideology to bear on the problem of working-class racism can offer a better... Sat, 21 Dec 2013 02:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/846/race-as-a-material-ideology