{"id":13995,"date":"2023-04-13T18:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/how-is-cancer-alley-a-problem-of-what-charles-long-describes-as-orientation-put-differently-why-is-the-structure-of-racial-capitalism-a-religious-situation\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:37:36","slug":"how-is-cancer-alley-a-problem-of-what-charles-long-describes-as-orientation-put-differently-why-is-the-structure-of-racial-capitalism-a-religious-situation","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/how-is-cancer-alley-a-problem-of-what-charles-long-describes-as-orientation-put-differently-why-is-the-structure-of-racial-capitalism-a-religious-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"How is cancer alley  a problem of what Charles Long describes as \u201corientation\u201d? Put differently, why is the structure of racial capitalism a \u201creligious situation\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this part of the essay, you should:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>-offer a working definition of \u201corientation\u201d or \u201creligious situation,\u201d in conversation with the work of Charles Long and James Baldwin;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>-articulate how racial capitalism as a general structure shapes individuals\u2019 and communities\u2019 orientations;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>-show how understanding racial capitalism as a \u201creligious situation\u201d offers possibilities for analysis and response; and<\/div>\n<div>-argue, using the work of Long and Balwin, for how the specific problem you\u2019ve delineated in Part #1 (Cancer Alley) can be understood as a \u201creligious situation\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this part of the essay, you should:&nbsp; -offer a working definition of \u201corientation\u201d or \u201creligious situation,\u201d in conversation with the work of Charles Long and James Baldwin;&nbsp; -articulate how racial capitalism as a general structure shapes individuals\u2019 and communities\u2019 orientations;&nbsp; -show how understanding racial capitalism as a \u201creligious situation\u201d offers possibilities for analysis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1108],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}