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'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar We are in a moment
of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and
entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial
legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of authoritarian
regimes, it is the lens of racism, and the politics of race, that
offers the sharpest focus. In Empire's Endgame, eight leading
scholars make a powerful intervention in debates around racial
capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the 'hostile
environment' policy and Brexit referendum have thrown the
centrality of race into sharp relief, discussions of racism have
too often focused on individual behaviours. Foregrounding instead
the wider political and economic context, the authors trace the
ways in which the legacies of empire have been reshaped by global
capitalism, the digital environment and the instability of the
nation-state. Engaging with movements such as Black Lives Matter
and Rhodes Must Fall, Empire's Endgame offers both an original
perspective on race, media, the state and criminalisation, and a
political vision that includes rather than expels in the face of
crisis.
'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar We are in a moment
of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and
entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial
legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of authoritarian
regimes, it is the lens of racism, and the politics of race, that
offers the sharpest focus. In Empire's Endgame, eight leading
scholars make a powerful intervention in debates around racial
capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the 'hostile
environment' policy and Brexit referendum have thrown the
centrality of race into sharp relief, discussions of racism have
too often focused on individual behaviours. Foregrounding instead
the wider political and economic context, the authors trace the
ways in which the legacies of empire have been reshaped by global
capitalism, the digital environment and the instability of the
nation-state. Engaging with movements such as Black Lives Matter
and Rhodes Must Fall, Empire's Endgame offers both an original
perspective on race, media, the state and criminalisation, and a
political vision that includes rather than expels in the face of
crisis.
The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and
incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races,
international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line
across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production, sale and
use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and
objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the War on
Drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. From
racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the
necropolitical wars in Juarez, Mexico and from the exchange of drug
policing programs between the United States and Israel to the
management of black bodies in Brazil, this collection proves that
the regulation of drugs and race is an international, and
intentional, disaster. Pushing forward the debate and activism led
by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical
changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform, both
nationally and internationally, this collection cuts deep and rings
true for all people fighting racism today.
The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and
incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races,
international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line
across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production, sale and
use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and
objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the War on
Drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. From
racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the
necropolitical wars in Juarez, Mexico and from the exchange of drug
policing programs between the United States and Israel to the
management of black bodies in Brazil, this collection proves that
the regulation of drugs and race is an international, and
intentional, disaster. Pushing forward the debate and activism led
by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical
changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform, both
nationally and internationally, this collection cuts deep and rings
true for all people fighting racism today.
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted
for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year 'Brilliantly arranged and
rich with fresh insights' Akala 'A radical, beautifully written
understanding of our history' Owen Jones 'You can't understand how
Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle 'A challenge
to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your
imperial past, or it will come back to bite you' Grace Blakeley
'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae
O'Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had
found it. Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history
of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end
of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of
British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe,
profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the
greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many
ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone.
Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore, Ghana to Britain, this is a
blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are
ravaging Britain today.
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted
for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year 'Brilliantly arranged and
rich with fresh insights' Akala 'A radical, beautifully written
understanding of our history' Owen Jones 'You can't understand how
Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle 'A challenge
to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your
imperial past, or it will come back to bite you' Grace Blakeley
'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae
O'Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had
found it. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how
after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of
well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and
lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in
former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the
globe as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across
Britain's former territories in colonial Africa, Asia and the
Caribbean were trapped in poverty. However, the reinforcement of
capitalist power across the world also ricocheted back home. Now it
has left many Britons wondering where their own sovereignty and
prosperity has gone... Decolonisation was not just a trendy
buzzword. It was one of the great global changes of the past
hundred years, yet Britain - the protagonist in the whole, messy
drama - has forgotten it was ever even there. A blistering
uncovering of the scandal of Britain's disastrous treatment of
independent countries after empire, Uncommon Wealth shows the
decisions of decades past are contributing to the forces that are
breaking Britain today.
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