{"product_id":"not-your-victim-how-our-obsession-with-race-entraps-and-divides-us-hardback-9781509571697","title":"Not Your Victim; How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us (Hardback) 9781509571697","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNot Your Victim\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarie Kawthar Daouda (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509571697, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The current mania for 'decolonization' puffs itself up as the champion of the victims of the West. So when a dark-hued, Moroccan-born, French-speaking, female immigrant declares her love for (much of) Western civilization, exposes the historical distortions of its 'woke' critics, and warns of their racial divisiveness, she commands attention. Marie Kawthar Daouda's striking witness carries authority, and does it with style.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLord Nigel Biggar, Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, and author of \u003ci\u003eColonialism: A Moral Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this brave and brilliant book, Dr Marie Daouda slices through the dogmas of our age with rare moral clarity. Refusing to flatten history into a tale of villains and victims, she offers a richer, more truthful account – one that affirms complexity, agency, and shared inheritance. A vital intervention in our overheated debates on empire and identity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInaya Folarin Iman, Director of The Equiano Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Fascinating, provocative, and elegantly erudite.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Stock, philosopher and author of \u003ci\u003eMaterial\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGirls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNot Your Victim\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing, provocative read… peppered with re-inspections of our unconscious assumptions about slavery and empire.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eExaminer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"a passionate, erudite and elegant cri de coeur on behalf of faith, freedom and beauty. It is a welcome and necessary rejoinder to the cultural and political elites who would impose the credo of victimhood on the rest of us.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlka Sehgal-Cuthbert, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is one of the best books of its kind yet published\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eConservative\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Home\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant [...] a powerful vision of the transformative power of culture, place and beauty.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngelsberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ideas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An intelligent and courageous critique of how modern identity politics, victimhood culture, and the decolonisation of the curriculum entrap and divide society.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory Reclaimed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmpire and race have become the most discussed – and most problematic – subjects in political and historical discourse. It is now an unquestionable orthodoxy both in academia and in progressive political discourse that European colonial empires – particularly the British – were uniquely evil, the West's 'original sin', and that their legacy continues to underpin systemic racism, injustice, and oppression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarie Kawthar Daouda, a Moroccan and French academic who now lives in Britain, argues that this narrative is dangerously wrong. Weaving her personal experience with erudite reflection on history, literature, and politics, she argues that we are all heirs of complex waves of immigration, conquest, and colonization. A closer look at French and British history belies a simplistic worldview wherein all the evil in the world is the result of the peculiarly vicious nature of white, Western colonizers. Indeed, she argues, such a perspective nurtures the very prejudices it claims to fight by valorizing victimhood above individual or collective agency and by denying ethnic minorities any sense of responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA coruscating attack on the perverse solipsism, moral blindness, and historical illiteracy of 'decolonizing' progressive elites, this book upends our tired debates over colonialism, empire, and immigration. It offers a more nuanced, hopeful vision of our historical self-understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Strange Island\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Where are you \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c\/i\u003e from?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 The Noble Savage, The French Revolution, and Mrs Jellyby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Places with no statues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Iconoclasm, old and new\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Must Rhodes fall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Tolerance, diversity, and neo-orientalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Cultural appropriation and cultural gatekeeping \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 The Racism of Cultural Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 The triumph of the victim and the rise of 'empowerment'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Equality: The tyranny of low expectations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 Western roots\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 A Christian identity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion Growing Roots\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453451858200,"sku":"9781509571697","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509571697.jpg?v=1785284632","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/not-your-victim-how-our-obsession-with-race-entraps-and-divides-us-hardback-9781509571697","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}