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oapen-20.500.12657-877822024-03-28T14:03:19Z Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism Breman, Jan Imperialism, inequality, political economy, Indonesia, postcolonial theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local labor. Under colonial rule, the ideology that later became known as neoliberalism was free to subject labor to a capitalism tainted by racialized policies. This political economy has now become dominant in the Western world, too, and has reversed the trend towards equality. In Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, Jan Breman shows how racial favoritism is no longer contained to ‘faraway, indigenous peoples,’ but has become a source of polarization within Western societies as well. 2024-02-20T10:36:21Z 2024-02-20T10:36:21Z 2024 book 9789048559916 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87782 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9789048559923.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048559916 10.5117/9789048559916 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789048559916 434 Amsterdam open access
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For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local labor. Under colonial rule, the ideology that later became known as neoliberalism was free to subject labor to a capitalism tainted by racialized policies. This political economy has now become dominant in the Western world, too, and has reversed the trend towards equality. In Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, Jan Breman shows how racial favoritism is no longer contained to ‘faraway, indigenous peoples,’ but has become a source of polarization within Western societies as well.
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