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To Own Whiteness

Musab Younis, 10 February 2022

Nice Racism 
by Robin DiAngelo.
Allen Lane, 224 pp., £17.99, June 2021, 978 0 241 51935 6
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Me and White Supremacy 
by Layla Saad.
Quercus, 242 pp., £14.99, January 2020, 978 1 5294 0510 1
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Do Better 
by Rachel Ricketts.
Gallery, 383 pp., £16.99, February 2021, 978 1 3985 0345 8
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What White People Can Do Next 
by Emma Dabiri.
Penguin, 176 pp., £7.99, April 2021, 978 0 14 199673 8
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... other. (Hence the term ‘racialisation’: race as a process, not an essence.)‘My fear​ ,’ Emma Dabiri writes in What White People Can Do Next, ‘is that much of the anti-racist literature is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness.’ Masquerading as a self-help book, What White People Can Do Next is actually a ...

The Pessimist’s Optimist

Kevin Okoth: Beyond the Postcolony, 10 July 2025

Brutalism 
by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran.
Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024, 978 1 4780 2558 0
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... aesthetic of the ‘Africa rising’ narrative championed by Western media. But critics including Emma Dabiri and Binyavanga Wainaina have criticised its ‘rapacious consumerism’ (Dabiri) and commodified view of cultural hybridity (Wainaina). In their desire to be seen not as victims but as active participants in ...

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