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The Afro-Asiatic Resilience to the Global Color Line: Revisiting Du Bois and Pearson in the Context of BRICS and the Alliance of Sahel States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2025

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University of Ottawa, Canada & Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IARD), Cameroon
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In the complex landscape of early twenty-first-century geopolitics, racial ideologies and the concept of the “color line” continue to shape international relations. Charles Henry Pearson, in his seminal work National Life and Character: A Forecast (1893), introduced the idea of “unchangeable limits of the higher races,” theorizing that European “higher races” are bound by natural and climatic constraints that prevent them from fully dominating regions populated by “lower races,” such as Africans, Chinese, Indians, and Indigenous peoples. Pearson predicted that these lower races would eventually outnumber and challenge European dominance, reflecting a deterministic view of global racial dynamics.

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Rethinking China–Africa Engagements in the Age of Discontent
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 58 , Issue 3: Contemporary and Future LGBTQ+ Scholarship in Political Science , July 2025 , pp. 556 - 560
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Political Science Association

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