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This book is about imperialism-driven globalization, its historic
impact on Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and, over time, the
varied responses of the national political units and regional
entities in these continents to the challenges of building
countervailing power and laying foundations for independent
development. Where genuine recovery and empowerment have emerged,
this has been the result not only of the pursuit of "dignitalist"
political and economic values that emphasize robust and sustained
productivity geared toward uplifting the living standards and
dignity of all the members of the national society, but also of the
creation of indigenous institutions whose relations with the
external world are defined by equality rather than dependence and
subordination. Opoku Agyeman argues that "dignification" is the
fundamentally necessary response to imperialism's inevitable
afflictions of national/racial humiliation. It is the most crucial
ingredient in the complex of motivations that propel formerly weak
nation-states and regional communities to rise up and defend the
honor of their people. As Mao Zedong told the world in 1949: "Ours
will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We
have stood up." This study argues emphatically that it is a
country's or region's developed or developing capabilities, not its
historic and continuing victimization or habitual dependence on
"charitable aid" and other "altruistic" interventions from the
"international community," that determines its success in escaping
the scourge of powerlessness and underdevelopment. It further
maintains that a people who have been brought low through brutal,
dehumanizing imperialism cannot bypass the need for redemptive
empowerment if they wish to regain honor and a proper place in the
world. Finally, it takes issue with Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs,
and others like them whose moralistic critiques of the rapacity of
imperialistic globalization carry the unfortunate implication that
it is possible for a fair and just world social order to come out
of incremental reforms of philanthropically-motivated developed,
powerful countries, in the structure and operations of global
capitalism.
Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, The Black Agenda is a bold and
urgent move towards social justice through a profound collection of
essays featuring Black scholars and experts across economics,
education, health, climate, and technology. It speaks to the
question 'What's next for America?' on the subjects of
policy-making, mental health, artificial intelligence, climate
movement, the future of work, the LGBTQ community, the criminal
legal system, and much more. Essayists including Dr. Sandy Darity,
Dr. Hedwig Lee, Mary Heglar, and Janelle Jones present
ground-breaking ideas ranging from Black maternal and infant health
to reparations to AI bias to inclusive economic policy, with the
potential to uplift and heal not only Black America, but the entire
country.
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