The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line - Hardcover

Bush, Roderick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592135722 ISBN 13: 9781592135721

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2009

Synopsis

"The End of White World Supremacy" explores a complex issue - integration of Blacks into White America - from multiple within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. Roderick Bush locates himself within a tradition of African American activism that goes back at least to W.E.B. Du Bois. In so doing, he communicates between two literatures - world systems analysis and radical Black social movement history - and sustains the dialogue throughout the book. Bush explains how racial troubles in the U.S. are symptomatic of the troubled relationship between the white and dark worlds globally. Beginning with an account of white European dominance leading to capitalist dominance by White America, "The End of White World Supremacy" ultimately wonders whether, as Myrdal argued in the 1940s, the American creed can provide a pathway to break this historical conundrum and give birth to international social justice.

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About the Author

Rod Bush is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John's University in New York City. Long an activist in the Black Power and radical movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, Bush returned to the academy in 1988 to obtain a Ph.D. He is the author of We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century, and editor of The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592135722
• ISBN 13: 9781592135721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264