UNIVERSITY NEWS LAST UPDATED : 01 FEBRUARY 2021
Global inequality and racism is the focus of an online event this week hosted by the UK’s first Professor of Black Studies, Kehinde Andrews and the country’s first Black female government minister, Dawn Butler MP.
The event will tackle topics covered in the Birmingham City University Professor’s new book and examine the historic links between racism, imperialism and capitalism.
Joining the leading academic on Saturday 6 February, Butler, MP for Brent Central will pose questions to Andrews on his new book which explores genocide, slavery and colonialism in the Western world.
“The West is rich because the rest is poor and capitalism is racism,” argues Andrews in ‘The New Age of Empire – How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World’.
“America is at the helm, perpetuating global inequality through business, government, and institutions like the UN, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.”
‘New Age of Empire: Kehinde Andrews in conversation with Dawn Butler’, takes place at 4pm on Saturday 6 February.