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Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation
By
Gary Y. Okihiro
Gary Y. Okihiro
Gary Y. Okihiro (1945-2024) was Visiting Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University and the author of many books, including
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Duke University Press
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978-1-4780-5965-3
Publication date:
2024
The world-system is a feature of imperialism and capitalism by which the core extracts and accumulates capital from the lands and labor of the periphery, or the Third World. Europe thereby is a creation of the Third World in that development in the core is a consequence of underdevelopment in the periphery. Racial capitalism features the racial division of labor of Africans, American Indians, Asians (and Pacific Islanders), and Latinxs.
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