Global Commonwealth and antiracism

"Collectively Rational and Democratic Global Commonwealth" is Professor Chase-Dunn's concept describing a better world-system. Another reason for needing such a CRDGC arises from the need to fight racist structures in the world-system. A CRDGC could implement "global affirmative action" policies, i.e., policies aimed at fighting structural and overt racism in the world-system. Anti-racist affirmative action policies have been effective, for example, in the city of Atlanta/USA. The Atlanta municipal government implemented antiracist affirmative action with success. See, the study by

Hewitt, Cynthia Lucas

“Job Segregation, Ethnic Hegemony, and Earnings Inequality”

ch. 9 in: David L. Sjoquist, ed., The Atlanta Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, pp.185-216

p.204 “”the public sector clearly has been the source of the greatest accumulation of savings among African Americans which could be invested in business development”

p204 “African American presence as mayors and significant city administrators was a major factor in increased ability of African America-owned businesses to become large enough no longer to be classified as primarily self-employment. The importance of the use of municipal political power to engender large-scale stable employment among other American ethnic groups is well documented…”

p.210 “affirmative action and minority contracting can be seen as the most evident change in the social regulation of markets. It is in this arena of state power that dispossessed majorities (as for instance blacks in Atlanta) can contest the private control of capital…”

P212 “Analysis suggests that the black community has utilized political influence over the structuring of the market in five key industries (construction; real estate and finance; transportation and utilities; education and social services; and government employment) to create a sheltered labor market”

P212”These findings give support to the extension of theory of ethnic hegemony to consider political considerations as inextricably intertwined with economic processes.”

If it works in Atlanta/USA for the Afro-American majority, it might work in the world at large for the non-white majority; and a Collectively Rational and Democratic Global Commonwealth could do it, using "Global Affirmative Action" policies.