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A review by nessynoname
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
challenging
informative
slow-paced
2.75
This is not a long book, and yet, I don't know what it was, I just had such a hard time absorbing this book. Something to do with the diction being elevated higher than I was equipped to read (which is weird because the tone of the book is often "conversational" too,) or the structure of the points. I was *trying* let me tell you. I have been to college, I have read scholarly works of social science and history. I got to the point where I was both listening to this book on audio while looking at the book in print. It was... mesmerizing how opaque it was to me.
I believe that this is a very important subject, and I do believe that the author has intelligent, salient things to say about it. I also really appreciated the author's consistent use of non-Western/non-First World examples when talking about colonial states endeavoring for independence and equity. But just something about the writing made it very hard to digest for me. I did absorb a handful of things from the work, and they are things that I think are very important to consider and mull over. But I just found that I was not able to take in everything the work had to say, and am left a bit bewildered about how much of it is my fault and how much of it is the author's fault.
I believe that this is a very important subject, and I do believe that the author has intelligent, salient things to say about it. I also really appreciated the author's consistent use of non-Western/non-First World examples when talking about colonial states endeavoring for independence and equity. But just something about the writing made it very hard to digest for me. I did absorb a handful of things from the work, and they are things that I think are very important to consider and mull over. But I just found that I was not able to take in everything the work had to say, and am left a bit bewildered about how much of it is my fault and how much of it is the author's fault.