It's Not about Whiteness, It's about Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work (Adekoya Remi)(Paperback)

''Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world''s racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both liberals and conservatives'' David Goodhart''This terrifically illuminating book . . . offers a new way of understanding modern racial structures''  Newspaper''This is a courageous and urgent intervention into one of the most important debates of our time - one in which we often seem curiously incurious about what would lead to genuine equality among groups. In clear and elegant prose Dr. Adekoya will shift the way you think about hierarchies of race'' Thomas Chatterton Williams''Remi brings a unique international perspective to the race debate, allowing the reader to understand complexities in the discussion that they won''t have considered before'' Katharine BirbalsinghWhat really matters when it comes to race? Western conversations on race and racism revolve around familiar themes; colonialism, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the ideology of white supremacism form the holy trinity of the race debate. But what if we are neglecting a key piece of the puzzle? Something that explains why a racial order persists today despite a moral consensus it should not.   In It''s Not About Whiteness, It''s About Wealth, Remi Adekoya persuasively argues that - in our capitalist world - it is socioeconomic realities which play the
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