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Chain of Ideas : The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age.
'Chain of Ideas' traces the rise of the authoritarian and xenophobic movements threatening democracies around the globe.
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- ISBN: 9780593978023
- Physical Description: 352 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Random House Publishing Group, 2026.
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| General Note: | CO |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations |
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The National Book Awardâwinning author of Stamped from the Beginning charts how âgreat replacement theoryâ has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.
Recall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: âYou will not replace us!â Recall the string of mass shooters across the globeâin Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburghâwho claimed their crimes were a defense against âWhite genocide.â Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change.
The term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were âinvadingâ Europe, brought by shadowy elites to âreplaceâ the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of âglobalistsâ welcoming âmigrant criminalsâ and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent.
In Chain of Ideas, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian ageâand how we can free ourselves from it.
