Dismantling Global White Privilege, Chandran Nair
Dismantling Global White Privilege, Chandran Nair
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Dismantling Global White Privilege
Equity for a Post-Western World

Author: Chandran Nair

Narrator: Karen Huie

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/04/2022


Synopsis

White privilege damages and distorts societies around the world, not just in the United States. This book exposes its pervasive global reach and creates a new space for discourse on worldwide racial equality.

In mid-2020, during the protests in the United States after the murder of George Floyd, over one hundred other countries held solidarity protests. These demonstrations often decried racial injustice and structural discrimination in their own societies. But no books have been written for a general audience describing the insidious role of white supremacy around the world.

Chandran Nair argues that white privilege is the best way to understand how oppression and dominance by Western cultures operates. Touching on history, business, environment, entertainment, media fashion, education, and more, he analyzes how it has shaped, repressed, and destroyed local cultures to seek and preserve white economic power.

Nair identifies white privilege as the driving force behind globalization, being constantly upheld and reproduced by a global superstructure that perpetuates widespread white economic and military dominance. This book provides a middle ground between brief media mentions and the dense rhetoric of racial politics so readers can develop a new worldview around dismantling white privilege at the global scale.

Reviews

Goodreads review by George on February 06, 2022

Review of “Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World” by Chandran Nair, 2022, 210 pages. Chandran Nair was born in 1954 in Malaysia, and has studied, worked, and consulted in many countries. His writing has appeared in South China Morning Post, New York Times, Financial Tim......more

Goodreads review by InspireSeattle on August 25, 2024

Much has been written recently regarding White privilege and the systemic racism that is rooted in American society and our legal system. This has resulted in a Republican backlash and their attempts to severely limit public schools from teaching about America’s history of racism. As America moves t......more

Goodreads review by Justin on January 09, 2022

While white privilege is a key discourse that has been discussed in various forms of academia, rarely is it suggested as a major impetus and driver of globalization. This book really challenges the reader to understand and reflect on the various racially-induced factors that have shaped our cultural......more

Goodreads review by Ester on January 15, 2022

This book pulled me out to write book review for the first time in my life. Moved to and working in the international city over 20 years, I’ve often been frustrated by the biased world extending a special favor to white people. Nair quenched my long-standing thirst. Nair examined the role of white p......more

Goodreads review by Sam on February 01, 2022

Something that should be taught in our school system! Growing up under the American education system, my sense of current and historical events were presented through a narrow western lens. Reading this book allowed me to realize that these preconceived notions I had about non-Western countries were......more