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'Witty, energising and refreshing' Jeffrey Boakye Take a step
through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan
is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy
self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness, where Boris
Johnson and Donald Trump are seen by the majority of the population
as 'the right (white) man for the job'. Perhaps you know it. All
the inhabitants seem to be afflicted by serious delusions, for
example that racism doesn't exist and if it does it can be cured
with a one-hour inclusion seminar, and bizarre collective
hallucinations, like the widely held idea that Britain's only role
in slavery was to abolish it. But there is a serious side too.
Society cannot face up to the racism at its heart and in its
history, so the delusions, irrationalities and hallucinations it
conjures up to avoid doing so can only best be described as a
psychosis, with the costs being borne by the sons and daughters of
that racist history. Living in a racist world is like living in a
world that bears no resemblance to reality. Black and brown people
suffer from a greater number of mental health difficulties too,
caused in no small part by trying to survive a racist society.
Kehinde Andrews is your piercing, wry and not a little funny guide
back to sanity, unpicking the absurd and outrageous lies society
tells to keep up the status quo. The Psychosis of Whiteness is your
lifeboat out of this topsy-turvy world.
Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic
field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and
omission from academic curricula in Britain. There is a long and
rich history of research on Blackness and Black populations in
Britain. However Blackness in Britain has too often been framed
through the lens of racialised deficits, constructed as both
marginal and pathological. Blackness in Britain attends to and
grapples with the absence of Black Studies in Britain and the
parallel crisis of Black marginality in British society. It begins
to map the field of Black Studies scholarship from a British
context, by collating new and established voices from scholars
writing about Blackness in Britain. Split into five parts, it
examines: Black studies and the challenge of the Black British
intellectual; Revolution, resistance and state violence; Blackness
and belonging; exclusion and inequality in education; experiences
of Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain. This
interdisciplinary collection represents a landmark in building
Black Studies in British academia, presenting key debates about
Black experiences in relation to Britain, Black Europe and the
wider Black diaspora. With contributions from across various
disciplines including sociology, human geography, medical
sociology, cultural studies, education studies, post-colonial
English literature, history, and criminology, the book will be
essential reading for scholars and students of the multi- and
inter-disciplinary area of Black Studies.
"If you want to get beyond gestures and slogans and to the truth,
this is the book to get you there" Russell Brand "Kehinde Andrews
is a crucial voice walking in a proud tradition of Black radical
criticism and action" Akala "An uncompromising account of the roots
of racism today" Kimberle Crenshaw "This clear-eyed analysis
insists upon the revolutionary acts of freedom we will need to
break out of these systems of violence" Ibram X. Kendi 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.
Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic
field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and
omission from academic curricula in Britain. There is a long and
rich history of research on Blackness and Black populations in
Britain. However Blackness in Britain has too often been framed
through the lens of racialised deficits, constructed as both
marginal and pathological. Blackness in Britain attends to and
grapples with the absence of Black Studies in Britain and the
parallel crisis of Black marginality in British society. It begins
to map the field of Black Studies scholarship from a British
context, by collating new and established voices from scholars
writing about Blackness in Britain. Split into five parts, it
examines: Black studies and the challenge of the Black British
intellectual; Revolution, resistance and state violence; Blackness
and belonging; exclusion and inequality in education; experiences
of Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain. This
interdisciplinary collection represents a landmark in building
Black Studies in British academia, presenting key debates about
Black experiences in relation to Britain, Black Europe and the
wider Black diaspora. With contributions from across various
disciplines including sociology, human geography, medical
sociology, cultural studies, education studies, post-colonial
English literature, history, and criminology, the book will be
essential reading for scholars and students of the multi- and
inter-disciplinary area of Black Studies.
Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical
politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its
rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis,
the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today.
At its core it argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the
fabric of society, and that it can never be overcome unless by
enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet this Black
radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully
misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy,
potency, and force. Kehinde Andrews explores the true roots of this
tradition and connects the dots to today's struggles by showing
what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the
21st century.
In the 1980s, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term
‘intersectionality’. Since then, the concept has spread across
national and disciplinary boundaries, and has had a transformative
impact on the way in which we understand identity and the
experience of discrimination. But outside the US, the application
of intersectional theory has largely been disconnected from any
analysis of ‘Blackness’, despite intersectionality’s origins
in critical race theory (CRT). Precisely how intersectionality is
shaping articulations of and political advocacy around Blackness
therefore remains to be examined. Curated by Crenshaw as well as
several of the leading scholars of CRT, this collection bridges
that gap, and is the first to apply both these concepts to contexts
outside the US. Focusing on Blackness in Britain, the contributors
examine how scholars and activists are employing intersectionality
to foreground Black British experiences. By focusing
intersectionality in this way, the collection seeks to recover
intersectionality’s foundations within CRT, and to link
intersectionality to Black diasporic experiences. Its essays
encompass key issues such as gender and Black womanhood, issues of
representation within contemporary British culture, and the
position of Black Britons within institutions such as the family,
education and health. The book also looks to the role
intersectionality can play in shaping future political activism,
and in forging links beyond ‘Blackness’ to other social
movements.
In the 1980s, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term
‘intersectionality’. Since then, the concept has spread across
national and disciplinary boundaries, and has had a transformative
impact on the way in which we understand identity and the
experience of discrimination. But outside the US, the application
of intersectional theory has largely been disconnected from any
analysis of ‘Blackness’, despite intersectionality’s origins
in critical race theory (CRT). Precisely how intersectionality is
shaping articulations of and political advocacy around Blackness
therefore remains to be examined. Curated by Crenshaw as well as
several of the leading scholars of CRT, this collection bridges
that gap, and is the first to apply both these concepts to contexts
outside the US. Focusing on Blackness in Britain, the contributors
examine how scholars and activists are employing intersectionality
to foreground Black British experiences. By focusing
intersectionality in this way, the collection seeks to recover
intersectionality’s foundations within CRT, and to link
intersectionality to Black diasporic experiences. Its essays
encompass key issues such as gender and Black womanhood, issues of
representation within contemporary British culture, and the
position of Black Britons within institutions such as the family,
education and health. The book also looks to the role
intersectionality can play in shaping future political activism,
and in forging links beyond ‘Blackness’ to other social
movements.
'Lucid, fluent and compelling' - Observer 'We need writers like
Andrews ... These are truths we need to be hearing' - New Statesman
Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical
politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its
rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis,
the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today.
At its core it argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the
fabric of society, and that it can never be overcome unless by
enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet this Black
radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully
misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy,
potency, and force. Kehinde Andrews explores the true roots of this
tradition and connects the dots to today's struggles by showing
what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the
21st century.
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