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In this chapter, Ornette D. Clennon traces the colonial origins of ‘post-truth’ politics. Clennon also ponders whether we are witnessing the final iteration of neoliberalism where colonial racial templates of social ordering have been liminally deracialised and adopted by the profit-obsessed market in order to subject an ever-widening demographic to social inequality. Clennon finally wonders what the impact of this market development will have on grassroots community self-determination.
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Clennon, O.D. (2018). Resisting Post-truth Whiteness: The Grassroots as Sites of Black Radical Activism. In: Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00837-6_6
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