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 AkalaAn uncompromising account of the roots of racism today
Kimberlé 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.
