The End of White World Supremacy

Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line

Roderick Bush

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781592135738, 9781592135721
• eBook ISBN: 9781592135745
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The End of White World Supremacy explores a complex issue— integration of Blacks into White America—from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. Roderick Bush locates himself within a tradition of African American activism that goes back at least to W.E.B. Du Bois. In so doing, he communicates between two literatures—worldsystems analysis and radical Black social movement history—and sustains the dialogue throughout the book.

Bush explains how racial troubles in the U.S. are symptomatic of the troubled relationship between the white and dark worlds globally. Beginning with an account of white European dominance leading to capitalist dominance by White America, The End of White World Supremacy ultimately wonders whether, as Myrdal argued in the 1940s, the American creed can provide a pathway to break this historical conundrum and give birth to international social justice.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction: “The Handwriting on the Wall”
• PART I Theory
• PART II Radical Social Movements
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index