Book release: 'The End of White World Supremacy' by Roderick Bush

'The End of White World Supremacy' explores a complex issue – the integration of blacks into white America – from multiple perspectives: within the United States; globally and in the context of movements for social justice. Roderick Bush locates himself within a tradition of African-American activism that goes back at least to W.E.B. Du Bois. In so doing, he communicates between two literatures – world systems analysis and radical black social movement history – and sustains the dialogue throughout the book.

Bush explains how racial troubles in the US are symptomatic of the troubled relationship between the white and dark worlds globally. Beginning with an account of white European dominance leading to capitalist dominance by white America, 'The End of White World Supremacy' ultimately wonders whether, as Gunnar Myrdal argued in the 1940s, the American creed can provide a pathway to break this historical conundrum and give birth to international social justice.

PRAISE FOR 'THE END OF WHITE WORLD SUPREMACY'

'Roderick Bush has produced an outstanding and original work that will allow scholars to effectively reframe many central issues pertaining to the history of race-based social movements and black political thought specifically and radical social movements of the past 40 years more generally.'
—David Baronov, associate professor of sociology, St. John Fisher College

'In "The End of White World Supremacy", Roderick Bush has established his status as a pre-eminent scholar of the black intellectual tradition. I firmly believe that this work will become a classic which will assume an important place in the canon of African-American studies and world systems theory.'
—William W. Sales, Jr., associate professor, Africana studies department, Seton Hall University, and the author of 'From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the OAAU'

'Roderick Bush leads us on a sophisticated tour through the long and complicated history of the relations between black radicals (intellectuals and movements) and the world Left. He comes down squarely on the need to find politically effective common ground that does not sacrifice what both have had and still have to offer in their efforts to transform the world into something far different and much better.'
—Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University

'"The End of White World Supremacy" is a riveting, bold and important analysis of black radicalism's evolution during the long 20th century. Theoretically ambitious and conceptually sophisticated, Roderick Bush has produced an invigorating and indispensable work whose wide-ranging scope will appeal to a broad range of interdisciplinary scholars and students.'
—Peniel E. Joseph, Tufts University and the author of 'Waiting ‘til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America'

CONTENTS

Introduction: 'The Handwriting on the Wall'

PART I: Theory

1. The Peculiar Internationalism of Black Nationalism
2. The Sociology of the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois and the End of White World Supremacy
3. The Class- First, Race- First Debate: The Contradictions of Nationalism and Internationalism and the Stratification of the World- System
4. Black Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Critique of Masculinist Models of Liberation

PART II: Radical Social Movements

5. The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America
6. Black Power, the American Dream, and the Spirit of Bandung: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Age of World Revolution

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* The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line, Roderick Bush, paper EAN: 978-1-59213-573-8 (ISBN: 1-59213-573-0), $28.95, July 2009, available; cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-572-1 (ISBN: 1-59213-572-2), $79.50, Jul 2009, available, 264 pp 6x9.
* Roderick Bush is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at St. John’s University in New York City. Long an activist in the Black Power and radical movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, Bush returned to the academy in 1988 to obtain a PhD. He is the author of 'We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century' and the editor of 'The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities'.
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