Chapter One – Liberalism and Eurocentrism

Daenearys Targaryen, a young white woman from Game of Thrones, is being carried by a crowd of darker-skinned people.
A screenshot from the television series Game of Thrones picturing Daenearys Targaryen being carried and celebrated as the savior for having just freed enslaved People of Color in the fictional city of Yunkai.

“Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.”

– J.M. Blaut, The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

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Radical Social Theory: An Appraisal, A Critique, and an Overcoming by Graciela Monteagudo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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