The Black Man Will Have the Whip Hand Over the White Man

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The infamous british politician, enoch powell. His name is now synonymous with the rivers of blood - a speech that brought his serious political career to a stuttering halt in 19 68. For much of his career, powell was a leading tory proponent of empire,. But after decolonization he pivoted from this fervent embrace of empire to a rapidly xenophobic denial of its existence.

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig