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Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.
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Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism to slavery.
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I have heard other laypeople assert that racism developed to justify slavery, and that Britain only abolished slavery because they found a way of making more money off of Black people as waged labourers. It’s very exciting to find what seems like the academic historical origin of this perspective, as a starting point both to assess it as an empirical claim, and to see the effect it has had on contemporary politics.