Elite Capture

Olúf¿¿mi O. Táíwòis Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed bookElite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò's public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured inThe Guardian,The New Yorker,The New Republic,The Nation,Boston Review,Dissent,Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.

Chapter One: Identity Politics, 2021
Identity Politics: It’s Not What You Think It Is
Elite Capture: The Bigger Problem
Chapter Two: What is Elite Capture?
E. Franklin Frazier
Who Run the World? Elites
Does Democracy Matter?
Capture at Every Scale
Chapter Three: Reading the Room
Carter G. Woodson
The Ground We Stand On
The Theory of Mis-Education
Elite Capture: Game It Out
Chapter Four: Being in the Room
Introduction
The View from Inside the Room
Better Blueprints
Chapter Five: Building a New House
Changing Rooms: Paulo Freire
Rebuild the House: The PAIGC
We’ve Got This
Getting Out the Hammers
Building a New House
Chapter Six: The Point is to Change It
Andaiye
What the Constructive View Asks of Us