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The new age of empire : how racism and colonialism still rule the world
- Title
- The new age of empire : how racism and colonialism still rule the world / Kehinde Andrews.
- Author
- Andrews, Kehinde
- Publication
- London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xxix, 251 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead, genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built, and we are still living under this system today: America is now at the helm, perpetuating global inequality through business, government, and institutions like the UN, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. The West is rich because the Rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. The West congratulations itself on raising poverty by increments in the developing world while ignoring the fact that it created these conditions in the first place, and continues to perpetuate them. The Enlightenment, which underlies every part of our foundational philosophy today, was and is profoundly racist. This colonial logic was and is used to justify the ransacking of Black and brown bodies and their land. The fashionable solutions offered by the white Left in recent years fall far short of even beginning to tackle the West's place at the helm of a racist global order. Offering no easy answers, The New Age of Empire is essential reading to understand our profoundly corrupt global system. A work of essential clarity, The New Age of Empire is a groundbreaking new blueprint for taking Black Radical thought into the twenty-first century and beyond. --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I'm white, therefore I am -- Genocide -- Slavery -- Colonialism -- Dawn of a new age -- The non-white west -- Imperial democracy -- Chickens coming home to roost.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3237
- ISBN
- 9780241437445
- 024143744X
- OCLC
- 1154329147
- Author
- Andrews, Kehinde, author.
- Title
- The new age of empire : how racism and colonialism still rule the world / Kehinde Andrews.
- Publisher
- London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Andrews, Kehinde. New age of empire. London : Penguin Books, 2021 9780141992372 (OCoLC)1233308449
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3237