{"product_id":"rednecks-and-barbarians","title":"Rednecks and Barbarians","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and with brilliant precision, reassembles them' - Alana Lentin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Europe and North America, the white working class is increasingly tempted by right-wing political parties. Fascistic candidates and ideas seem to reap the fruits of social unrest everywhere. With her usual thought-provoking and unyielding insights, Houria Bouteldja shows how the history of the left explains this conundrum and how we can overcome it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from Black radical and decolonial Marxism, she shows that by privileging white constituencies, unions and left parties laid the foundations for a racial contract that binds workers and the poor to the state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, there may still be a way out of this trap. Uniting 'rednecks' (the white working class) and 'barbarians' (the racially oppressed), requires a project of popular sovereignty, where national identity is transformed through revolutionary love. Looking to the future, Bouteldja imagines antiracism as a redemptive struggle aimed not only at rehabilitating marginalized communities but also at redefining white dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Valinsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42849621803069,"sku":"9780745349558","price":31.46,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780745349558_e139da91-e4c6-4d53-940a-4df0d1204f52.jpg?v=1767039751","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/rednecks-and-barbarians","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}