God's Little Tannery. One of the few remaining tanneries in Kano, Nigeria. 2016. ELEANOR WHITEHEAD

Where are African Victims? In the Emerging Working Class Anti-Globalization Discourse

n the aftermath of the last US presidential election, I have been trying to re-understand America, a country that I have adopted as my own. Shocked and humbled by the outcome of the election, and as a lifelong student of the human condition, I've been trying to better comprehend the economic and cultural anxieties of the white working class, a group that assumed a mythical factor in pre- and post-election political prognostications and in new discussions about the va
 

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