Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, where he founded, and is currently director of, the Centre for Critical Social Research. At BCU he was also one of the team who founded the first undergraduate degree in Black Studies. Andrews regularly writes for the Guardian, the Independent, Ebony Magazine, and CNN. He has been featured on Good Morning Britain, Newsnight, Channel 4 News, BBC News Channel, and Under the Skin with Russell Brand. Andrews's first book, Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement, was published in 2013 and he co-edited the first collection of British Black Studies, Blackness in Britain, in 2016. His latest book was Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century published by Zed books in 2018. He lives in Birmingham.
"An uncompromising account of the roots of racism today."--Kimberlé
Crenshaw
"Kehinde is a crucial voice, walking in a proud tradition of Black
radical criticism and action."--Akala
"Professor Andrews takes the reader on a journey, and it isn't a
comfortable one. Pick up this book and read it carefully. Once that
is done, readers will be surely challenged, both in thinking and
action."--Dawn Butler, Labour MP
"This book is a provocation. As Kehinde Andrews argues, we are
still living this imperial nightmare, still reaping the
consequences of contemporary racialized violence and exploitation.
The lesson: no freedom under racism, no future under capitalism, no
justice without decolonization."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"This book is a radical, necessary indictment of the racist
structures that produced the current anti-Black world order.
Historically rigorous and deeply researched. . . . Andrews's
clear-eyed analysis insists upon the revolutionary acts of freedom
we will need to break out of these systems of violence."--Ibram X.
Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the
Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
"Provide[s] readers with a solid grounding in the 500-year history
of racial capitalism - the enduring significance of the genocide of
Native Americans, the transatlantic slave trade and European
colonialism - as he works, convincingly, to reveal the 'colonial
logic and neocolonialism' still at play in the workings of
contemporary global institutions such as the UN, the IMF, the World
Bank, the WTO."
--The Guardian
"Skillfully interweaving economics, politics, and history to debunk
popular narratives of social progress, this searing takedown hits
home."--Publishers Weekly
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