Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism
A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice
Published on 1. October 2025
432 pages
978-1-040-79774-7 (ISBN)
Description
For a long time, Europe's colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were 'bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.' This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local labor. Under colonial rule, the ideology that later became known as neoliberalism was free to subject labor to a capitalism tainted by racialized policies. This political economy has now become dominant in the Western world, too, and has reversed the trend towards equality. In Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, Jan Breman shows how racial favoritism is no longer contained to 'faraway, indigenous peoples', but has become a source of polarization within Western societies as well.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
15,48 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-79774-7 (9781040797747)
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Persons
Jan Breman is professor emeritus of comparative sociology at the University of Amsterdam and an honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Content
Prologue, I Imperialism, Its Ideology and Practice of Racial Inequality, 1. Colonialism and racism, 2. Alexis de Tocqueville on class and race, II The Coolie Scandal at Sumatra's East Coast, 3. Dutch colonialism and its racial imprint, 4. Coolie labour and colonial capitalism, 5. A crafty lawyer of shady deals, III Civilisation and Racism, 6. A state of terror. Leopold II's Congo, 7. Colonial development, 8. Whistleblowers of Belgian colonialism, IV The Denial of National Freedom, 9. The color line as the crux of colonial rule, 10. Christianization and capitalism. The religious fervour of ethical politics, 11. Indonesia's decolonization impaired, 12. The last colonial war and its impact on Indonesia's independence, Development Aid as the Postcolonial Globalization of Capitalism, 13. Spreading Dutch welfarism in the Global South, 14. Development aid abandoned, mission achieved, 15. W.F. Wertheim, a sociological chronicler of revolutionary change, Epilogue.
