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Haymarket Books
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1642596884
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9781642596885
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Elite Capture : How the Powerful Took over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
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168 Pages
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English
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Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights
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2022
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Political Science, Social Science
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Trade Paperback
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"Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness,' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, "Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Olúfmi O. Táíwò's book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness,' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works, "Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Olúfmi O. Táíwò's book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness,' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "Olúfi O. Táíwò is one of the great social theorists of our generation. Elite Capture is a brilliant, devastating book. Táíwò deploys his characteristic blend of philosophical rigor, sociological insight, and political clarity to reset the debate on identity politics. Táíwò shows how the structure of racial capitalism, not misguided activism, is today's prime threat to egalitarian, anti-racist politics. And Táíwò's suggested path forward, a constructive and materialist politics at the radical edge of the possible, is exactly what we need to escape these desperate times. Anyone concerned with dismantling inequalities, and building a better world, needs to read this book." --Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal "Táíwò's book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book." --Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor at the London School of Economics "This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it--and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes." --Daniel Denvir, host, The Dig, "I was waiting for this book without realizing I was waiting for this book." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition "Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism''s latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Olúfmi O. Táíwò''s book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "Olúfmi O. Táíwò offers an indispensable and urgent set of analyses, interventions, and alternatives to "identity politics," "centering," and much more. The book offers a sober assessment of the state of our racial politics and a powerful path on how to build the world that we deserve." --Derecka Purnell, author of Becoming Abolitionists "With global breadth, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "Among the churn of books on ''wokeness'' and ''political correctness,'' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò''s Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "Olúfi O. Táíwò is one of the great social theorists of our generation. Elite Capture is a brilliant, devastating book. Táíwò deploys his characteristic blend of philosophical rigor, sociological insight, and political clarity to reset the debate on identity politics. Táíwò shows how the structure of racial capitalism, not misguided activism, is today''s prime threat to egalitarian, anti-racist politics. And Táíwò''s suggested path forward, a constructive and materialist politics at the radical edge of the possible, is exactly what we need to escape these desperate times. Anyone concerned with dismantling inequalities, and building a better world, needs to read this book." --Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal "Táíwò''s book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book." --Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor at the London School of Economics "This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it--and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes." --Daniel Denvir, host, The Dig, "Olúfémi Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness,' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, "Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Olúfmi O. Táíwò's book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness,' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "Táíwò's book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book." --Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor at the London School of Economics "This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it--and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes." --Daniel Denvir, host, The Dig, "I was waiting for this book without realizing I was waiting for this book." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition "Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism''s latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Olúfmi O. Táíwò''s book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "Olúfmi O. Táíwò offers an indispensable and urgent set of analyses, interventions, and alternatives to "identity politics," "centering," and much more. The book offers a sober assessment of the state of our racial politics and a powerful path on how to build the world that we deserve." --Derecka Purnell, author of Becoming Abolitionists "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "Among the churn of books on ''wokeness'' and ''political correctness,'' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò''s Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "Olúfi O. Táíwò is one of the great social theorists of our generation. Elite Capture is a brilliant, devastating book. Táíwò deploys his characteristic blend of philosophical rigor, sociological insight, and political clarity to reset the debate on identity politics. Táíwò shows how the structure of racial capitalism, not misguided activism, is today''s prime threat to egalitarian, anti-racist politics. And Táíwò''s suggested path forward, a constructive and materialist politics at the radical edge of the possible, is exactly what we need to escape these desperate times. Anyone concerned with dismantling inequalities, and building a better world, needs to read this book." --Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal "Táíwò''s book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book." --Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor at the London School of Economics "This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it--and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes." --Daniel Denvir, host, The Dig, "Olúfémi Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, "Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Olúfmi O. Táíwò's book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "Olúfmi O. Táíwò offers an indispensable and urgent set of analyses, interventions, and alternatives to "identity politics," "centering," and much more. The book offers a sober assessment of the state of our racial politics and a powerful path on how to build the world that we deserve." --Derecka Purnell, author of Becoming Abolitionists "With global breath, clarity and precision, Olúfmi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness,' philosopher Olúfmi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book." --Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works "Olúfi O. Táíwò is one of the great social theorists of our generation. Elite Capture is a brilliant, devastating book. Táíwò deploys his characteristic blend of philosophical rigor, sociological insight, and political clarity to reset the debate on identity politics. Táíwò shows how the structure of racial capitalism, not misguided activism, is today's prime threat to egalitarian, anti-racist politics. And Táíwò's suggested path forward, a constructive and materialist politics at the radical edge of the possible, is exactly what we need to escape these desperate times. Anyone concerned with dismantling inequalities, and building a better world, needs to read this book." --Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal "Táíwò's book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book." --Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor at the London School of Economics "This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it--and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes." --Daniel Denvir, host, The Dig
Table Of Content
Chapter One: Identity Politics, 2021 Identity Politics: It's Not What You Think It Is Elite Capture: The Bigger Problem Chapter Two: What is Elite Capture? E. Franklin Frazier Who Run the World? Elites Does Democracy Matter? Capture at Every Scale Chapter Three: Reading the Room Carter G. Woodson The Ground We Stand On The Theory of Mis-Education Elite Capture: Game It Out Chapter Four: Being in the Room Introduction The View from Inside the Room Better Blueprints Chapter Five: Building a New House Changing Rooms: Paulo Freire Rebuild the House: The PAIGC We've Got This Getting Out the Hammers Building a New House Chapter Six: The Point is to Change It Andaiye What the Constructive View Asks of Us
Synopsis
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends., "Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, identity politics is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. But the trouble, Olúfmi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture--deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò's crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of "class" vs. "race." By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.
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HM753.T36 2022
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