Abstract
Review of "The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line," by Roderick Bush
Highlights
Wainwright offers a sophisticated yet strikingly responsible approach to the critique of development by eschewing the unfortunate tradition of “straw-man” construction and demolition
They understand the structural motivations behind development strategies and how they function in support expansion of capital accumulation. With all of this knowledge, one area continues to elude consensus: how to critique effectively and combat development. This is the daunting task undertaken by Joel Wainwright in Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya, who argues that the solution to this vexing problem is the synthetic fabrication of a “postcolonial Marxist critique of development”
He seeks to synthesize Marxist critiques of development with postcolonial studies for the purpose of creating a framework for developmental critique that does not suffer from the structural limitations of traditional Marxist approaches or from the overtly subjectivist tendencies of discourse-oriented postcolonialism
Summary
Wainwright offers a sophisticated yet strikingly responsible approach to the critique of development by eschewing the unfortunate tradition of “straw-man” construction and demolition. The first section (encompassing chapters one through three) examines the process of colonial discourse construction that would define the Maya as a colonized people and establish the discursive definitional framework of “Mayanism.” This section is where Wainwright establishes his three main empirical concepts of capitalism, settlement, and trusteeship as components of contemporary development.
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