Response to Latinx Experience In Care Work

Today's reading was compelling for a number of reasons, but primarily because of how easy it is to make the historical inference that the devaluing of black women's labor was the predecessor for the discriminatory care work practices that Latinx people, especially women or femme-presenting ones, face.

It was also interesting making the connection that the already-low value of black women's labor went down even lower during the Great Migration (to the American North). Latinx women's labor is also valued less once they immigrate. Both experiences reflect the exploitative forces of capitalism that prey on the most vulnerable populations and try to extract labor at the lowest cause. In both migration scenarios, the inhabitants of the destination capitalized off of the women's unfamiliarity with the area ad economy as well as off of ethnic stereotypes in order to extract labor from care workers at a lower rate.

It also sucks that in both scenarios, the womens investment in the homes of white, burgeois people prevented them from being engaged in their own homes and caused domestic issues, large and small. This is another  example where it's clear that the workings of the capitalist, white supremacist economy directly (and negatively) impacts poor black and brown people.