Defying his discipline''s preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice. - Carol Polsgrove (American Historical Review) Robert Vitalis wants his discipline to understand not only how central the category of race and the structures of racism were to its founding institutions and paradigms but also to see the erasure of that history not as progress but as repression, a willful forgetting that has if anything made it less equipped to comprehend (much less to address) the shocking racial inequities that still mark both the American and the global order. If international relations scholars want to understand the racial politics that made their field what it is today, there is no better place to begin than with this righteously angry book. - Susan Pederson (London Review of Books) There is much to commend in Vitalis'' book which is filled with fascinating vignettes and unexpected connections. He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book''s opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander. - Jake Hodder (Journal of Historical Geography) The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline. Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. (National Polticial Science Review)scinating vignettes and unexpected connections.

He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book''s opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander.- Jake Hodder (Journal of Historical Geography) The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline. Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. (National Polticial Science Review)scinating vignettes and unexpected connections. He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book''s opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander.- Jake Hodder (Journal of Historical Geography) The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline. Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. (National Polticial Science Review)scinating vignettes and unexpected connections.

He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book''s opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander.- Jake Hodder (Journal of Historical Geography) The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline. Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. (National Polticial Science Review)with clarity and passion, especially in the book''s opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander.- Jake Hodder (Journal of Historical Geography) The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline. Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. (National Polticial Science Review).