Elite Capture

How the Powerful Took over Identity Politics

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò: Elite Capture (2022, Pluto Press)

English language

Published Nov. 16, 2022 by Pluto Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7453-4785-1
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One of these article-turned-into-book books

4 stars

This is a book based on an article, or rather it is an article inflated to the size of a book. I was able to tell after 30 pages, and got confirmed afterwards. This seems like a common practice in the US publishing world: an article-sized essay gets inflated through the addition of an introduction where terms are defined, and the insertion of examples. The argumentative structure stays the same, only now instead of occasionally nodding towards an example to support an argument, every argument gets one to several examples that are stretched to wikipedia length. This practice isn't necessarily a bad thing. In the case of this book, some of the examples given are things I didn't know anything about (the decolonial struggles of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde), so this is a nice opportunity to learn something new. But all in all, this practice makes good essays longer and …

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  • Political science