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Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the worlds racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both liberals and conservatives David Goodhart

This terrifically illuminating book offers a new way of understanding modern racial structures i Newspaper

This is a courageous and urgent intervention into one of the most important debates of our time one in which we often seem curiously incurious about what would lead to genuine equality among groups In clear and elegant prose Dr Adekoya will shift the way you think about hierarchies of race Thomas Chatterton Williams

Remi brings a unique international perspective to the race debate allowing the reader to understand complexities in the discussion that they wont have considered before Katharine Birbalsingh

Its Not About Whiteness Its About Wealth forms part of the urgent and longawaited intellectual work needed to create a genuinely fair and socially just society one that doesnt depend on treating ethnic minority people like children The strength of Adekoyas book is that it is rooted in concrete material questions in the context of a debate transfixed by the performative and the representational Critic

Adekoyas book is one of the rare works which problematize the Woke stereotypes it correctly grounds racist prejudices in wealth differences All sincere liberal antiracists should read this book to grasp why their efforts are so counterproductive And since liberal antiracism is the hegemonic ideology in our countries this means that EVERYBODY should read Adekoyas book Slavoj iek

At once witty and factfilledbut also selfdeprecating and sometimes very movingIts Not About Whiteness Its About Wealth turns current debates about racism and privilege on their heads Helen Dale

What really matters when it comes to race

Western conversations on race and racism revolve around familiar themes colonialism the TransAtlantic slave trade and the ideology of white supremacism form the holy trinity of the race debate But what if we are neglecting a key piece of the puzzle Something that explains why a racial order persists today despite a moral consensus it should not

In Its Not About Whiteness Its About Wealth Remi Adekoya persuasively argues that in our capitalist world it is socioeconomic realities which play the leading role in sustaining racial hierarchies in everyday life and in the global big picture something regularly overlooked in the current debate Financial power is what enables ultimate influence over events environments and people and as Adekoya expertly demonstrates it is money more than anything else that maintains the racial pecking order Exploring immigration technology media group stereotypes status perceptions and more this book cleverly shows how wealth determines whats what in key domains of modern life and how this affects racial dynamics across the globe

An incisive insightful and open investigation into the links between financial power and racial hierarchies Adekoya sheds much needed light on the status and power imbalances shaping our world and reveals what needs to be done to combat them going forward