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Since “whiteness” is a racist idea, it follows that being a “white person” is a racist concept. This book studies how Europeans came to think of themselves as white. The book unpacks the white supremacist beliefs that went into the white identity and shows how these ideas continue to propel structural racism today. The book explores what would happen if Europeans were to stop thinking of themselves as white. It also explores what would happen if non-European cultures were to remove the white ideas we have unwittingly adopted. What would happen in our global society, our politics, and our economies? Ultimately, the book concludes that if we all want a world without racism, we will need to build a world without white people. The book’s core is a history of white supremacy and the white identity, which demonstrates that European ideas of sexism, homophobia, and racism are dependent parts within a single social system. The book unfolds how these white ideas drove colonial atrocity to form our global structure today. The study also explores how these ideas live on in the minds and instincts of white people to drive new inequality. The book allows us to identify the white ideas that make up white supremacy so that Europeans can discard these beliefs. The opening chapters cover how white progressives are as racist as their conservative counterparts, the fantasies white people use to shield themselves from seeing their own white supremacy, and the creation of the Asian model minority as a racist structure to exclude Black people from sharing wealth and power. The book goes on to dissect the polite manners white people use to make racist decisions and shows how these decisions are fuelled by a racist moral system embedded into white culture. The core of the book is a historic study that outlines each European doctrine that forms the construction of whiteness, to give us a clear understanding of the white identity and a precise definition of white power and white privilege. This allows us to remove white ideas from ourselves, our cultures, and our communities. The book closes by drawing all these strands into a single structural diagram, and ends with an invitation to imagine a new moral economy that is capable of driving the social changes we need, to deliver the shared global outcomes we really desire. www.railao.com

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