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Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a
groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the
global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa’s rich
resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world
powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class
populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership
positions for subjecting their populations into poverty and
desperation. Middle-class obsessions such as computers, mobile
phones, cars and the petroleum that fuels them, diamonds, chocolate
– all of these products require African resources that are
typically obtained by child or slave labor that helps to generate
billionaires out of foreign investors while impoverishing most
Africans. Oritsejafor and Cooper demonstrate that "primitive
accumulation," believed by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx to be a
process that precedes capitalism, is actually an integral part of
capitalism. They also validate the thesis that capitalism
incorporates racism as an organizing tool for the exploitation of
labor in Africa and on a global scale. Case studies are presented
on Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Congo, Tanzania,
Somalia, Angola, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, and South Sudan.
There are also chapters analyzing the interests of Russia and China
in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars
of African politics, development, and economics.
Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served
to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition
movement and anti-colonial struggles. The corpus of human rights
law that has evolved over the past two centuries is constructed
around the negation of slavery. This book analyzes how slavery
mutated into racial identification that governments enforce against
their own population to advance more efficient methods of
discipline and control. The Shadow that Lingers reveals how race is
used to traumatize human beings by embodying inferiority and
powerlessness, even for whites that claim privilege under
racialized regimes. As an ideology of power, race becomes
contextualized to fit local cultures, resulting in contradictory
understandings of race from one culture to another. This book
focuses attention on how racial hybridity among mixed-race
communities poses challenges for racial purists, and how such
communities endeavor to construct racial identities that often
differentiate themselves from being black. The book concludes with
an analysis of how the pursuit of freedom inevitably requires the
reification of a non-racial identity.
Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a
groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the
global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa's rich
resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world
powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class
populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership
positions for subjecting their populations into poverty and
desperation. Middle-class obsessions such as computers, mobile
phones, cars and the petroleum that fuels them, diamonds, chocolate
- all of these products require African resources that are
typically obtained by child or slave labor that helps to generate
billionaires out of foreign investors while impoverishing most
Africans. Oritsejafor and Cooper demonstrate that "primitive
accumulation," believed by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx to be a
process that precedes capitalism, is actually an integral part of
capitalism. They also validate the thesis that capitalism
incorporates racism as an organizing tool for the exploitation of
labor in Africa and on a global scale. Case studies are presented
on Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Congo, Tanzania,
Somalia, Angola, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, and South Sudan.
There are also chapters analyzing the interests of Russia and China
in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars
of African politics, development, and economics.
Political philosophers from the beginning of history have
articulated the significance of beauty. Allan D. Cooper argues that
these writings are coded to justify patriarchal structures of
power, and that each epoch of global history has reflected a
paradigm of beauty that rationalizes protocols of gender
performance. Patriarchy is a system of knowledge that trains men to
become soldiers but is now being challenged by human rights
advocates and women's rights activists.
This first comprehensive examination of U.S. relations with Namibia
offers a critical analysis of the economic and historical
determinants of current U.S. policy in southern Africa. Dr. Cooper
first traces American ties to Namibia dating from the 1700s,
documenting an extensive commercial interest in the area prior to
German colonization. Subsequen
The Geography of Genocide offers a unique analysis of over sixty
genocides in world history, explaining why genocides only occur in
territorial interiors and never originate from cosmopolitan urban
centers. This study explores why genocides tend to result from
emasculating political defeats experienced by perpetrator groups
and examines whether such extreme political violence is the product
of a masculine identity crisis. Author Allan D. Cooper notes that
genocides are most often organized and implemented by individuals
who have experienced traumatic childhood events involving the
abandonment or abuse by their father. Although genocides target
religious groups, nations, races or ethnic groups, these identity
structures are rarely at the heart of the war crimes that ensue.
Cooper integrates research derived from the study of serial killing
and rape to show certain commonalities with the phenomenon of
genocide. The Geography of Genocide presents various strategies for
responding to genocide and introduces Cooper's groundbreaking
alternatives for ultimately inhibiting the occurrence of genocide.
This first comprehensive examination of U.S. relations with Namibia
offers a critical analysis of the economic and historical
determinants of current U.S. policy in southern Africa. Dr. Cooper
first traces American ties to Namibia dating from the 1700s,
documenting an extensive commercial interest in the area prior to
German colonization. Subsequen
Ovambo Politics in the Twentieth Century offers a paradigm shift
from how studies typically treat the colonization of Africa. Using
archival documentation from government and industry sources, Cooper
offers a detailed historical analysis of the seven major
communities comprising the Ovambo- Namibia's largest ethnic group.
His examination reveals that these Ovambo communities engaged in
competitive political relations with each other throughout the
German colonial era as well as the subsequent occupation of
territory by the white minority government of South Africa. Each
community alternated between strategies of resistance and
collaboration with colonial authorities in order to maximize their
geopolitical advantage with their ethnic neighbors. Cooper provides
documentation showing that even the assassination of King Mandume
in 1917 by South African forces involved the participation of
leaders from other Ovambo communities. Ovambo Politics in the
Twentieth Century is intended for Africanists, ethnographers,
Namibians seeking an understanding of their own history, labor
historians, students of colonial history, and students of
revolutionary movements.
Political philosophers from the beginning of history have
articulated the significance of beauty. Cooper argues that these
writings are coded to justify patriarchal structures of power, and
that each epoch of global, history has reflected a paradigm of
beauty that rationalizes protocols of gender performance.
Patriarchy is a system of knowledge that trains men to become
soldiers, but has now come into conflict with contemporary
international law governing human rights and-women's rights.
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