Sylvie Laurent wants to prove that since 1492 capitalism and racism have linked destinies. The discovery of the ‘new world’ by Christopher Columbus in 1492 is the founding event of Western modernity.
In the 19th century, the Church considered its canonization, today it repents for the misdeeds of colonization. The academic wants to reconcile Martin Luther King and Karl Marx, in order to prove “ race has manifested itself in history as one of the essential infrastructures of capitalism ”