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It's #BlackHistoryMonth, and in 2024 I'm reflecting on the fact that although I've known about Walter Rodney and his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" for years, it wasn't until I
@[email protected] It reminded me of the title "How Capitalism undedeveloped Black America" haymarketbooks.org/books/736-h…
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It's #BlackHistoryMonth, and in 2024 I'm reflecting on the fact that although I've known about Walter Rodney and his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" for years, it wasn't until I
@[email protected] Many decades ago it was enlightening to read this and place US racism under a more theoretical perspective. I had seen him speak once, he transmitted honesty in a world of fakes and pretends.
His book was on a list of textbooks on a Sociology of race and ethnic relations class by Fred Pincus. Although I believed and had a tendency of the ideas in the book and class, the experience empowered me to act on the ideas and not keep them inwards just for personal enrichment.
