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sofia_om's review against another edition
i'm honestly not sure what to rate it(??
oystermination's review against another edition
4.0
I think this is an important book in understanding the impact of both the obviously horrid colonial and more subvert neo-colonial structures of the West. It is also importantly skeptical of non-Western countries who continue to perpetuate these systems by presenting themselves as a more positive force. I think it is a bit myopic in its ignoring the impact of patriarchy, and occasionally self-indulgent, but a perspective I enjoyed nonetheless.
carcinogenx's review against another edition
i feel like i already get it. like imperialism and colonialism are not new to me
nela's review against another edition
5.0
"...the ballot or the bullet, liberty or death, freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody."
"Racial science was not some marginal concern at the corners of European philosophy, it was an integral component of its intellectual framework."
"The simple ‘never again’ rhetoric misses the mark so widely because it presents the West as the solution, when in fact it was the system that was the problem all along."
"We think of slavery as belonging to the distant past, but the world we live in remains created in its image."
"If the slave owners were compensated at the end of slavery there can be no justifiable reason for denying reparations to those suffering the legacies of the system."
"Not being White has never automatically meant being opposed to the colonial logic of White supremacy."
"The West can never be the solution to global poverty because it is the cause of it. The places in the underdeveloped world that have made the biggest strides forward since the dawn of the new age of empire are those that have had the least support from the West."
"Whereas we may have accepted that killing and enslaving the natives is wrong, we have normalized poverty for the Black and Brown because in the new world order our lives matter, just a lot less."
"Knowledge did not spread out of Europe to bring light to the uncivilized parts of the world. In fact, it was the very opposite: Europe took knowledge produced around the globe and Whitewashed it, pretending it was theirs."
"A narrow focus on full humanity for workers in the West, and merely the right to life for the those in the Rest, prevents any serious reckoning with the scale of injustice upon which global wealth disparities are built."
"Racial science was not some marginal concern at the corners of European philosophy, it was an integral component of its intellectual framework."
"The simple ‘never again’ rhetoric misses the mark so widely because it presents the West as the solution, when in fact it was the system that was the problem all along."
"We think of slavery as belonging to the distant past, but the world we live in remains created in its image."
"If the slave owners were compensated at the end of slavery there can be no justifiable reason for denying reparations to those suffering the legacies of the system."
"Not being White has never automatically meant being opposed to the colonial logic of White supremacy."
"The West can never be the solution to global poverty because it is the cause of it. The places in the underdeveloped world that have made the biggest strides forward since the dawn of the new age of empire are those that have had the least support from the West."
"Whereas we may have accepted that killing and enslaving the natives is wrong, we have normalized poverty for the Black and Brown because in the new world order our lives matter, just a lot less."
"Knowledge did not spread out of Europe to bring light to the uncivilized parts of the world. In fact, it was the very opposite: Europe took knowledge produced around the globe and Whitewashed it, pretending it was theirs."
"A narrow focus on full humanity for workers in the West, and merely the right to life for the those in the Rest, prevents any serious reckoning with the scale of injustice upon which global wealth disparities are built."
josierushinxo's review against another edition
4.0
non-fiction about imperialism / colonialism. i enjoyed the multiple country views - it wasn’t exclusively us or uk centric. it also took on a very modern aspect of history which I enjoyed. overall I would recommend to anyone interested in colonialism and deconstructing history.