It’s Not About Whiteness, It’s About Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work

Name: It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work
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An open and insightful investigation at how contemporary racial hierarchies are determined by wealth and economics, and how this is reflected in today’s economic hierarchies.

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What 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 leading role in sustaining racial hierarchies in everyday life and in the global big picture, something regularly overlooked in the current debate