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 analyses 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 globalisation, 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.
Nair dissects and exposes the system that has long benefitted a minority at the expense of the rest
Amy Goodman
Host / Executive Producer
Democracy Now!
Chandran Nair provides a readable and wide-ranging analysis of this term and the way white privilege continues to shape lives around the world. A timely work by an original thinker.
Dr Shashi Tharoor
Former UN Under-Secretary-General and
Bestselling Author, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Written by an astute observer who has lived in both worlds, Nair analyses the conscious and unconscious aspects of a system that has pushed the world to the brink of disaster and must be dismantled.
John Perkins
New York Times bestselling author,
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Nair’s new book is a major contribution to making the invisible visible. It could hardly be more timely and deserves to be widely read.
Martin Jacques
Bestselling author,
When China Rules the World