Eurowhiteness

‘Hans Kundnani has been on an intellectual journey over several years, close to the heart of the European mythmaking machine... What has emerged from this slow disenchantment is a clear, elegantly written polemic. Some people won’t like it, which is probably why they should read it. … Kundnani’s book is more than an insightful one, it is a necessary one.’

-- Financial Times

‘[A] short and punchy book [that] exposes the often hidden and frequently denied foundations of European integration.’

-- The Irish Times

‘[Eurowhiteness] decries the continent's subtler form of chauvinism. ... By highlighting the way colonial horrors were memory-holed, Mr Kundnani rightly points out that other sins were mostly ignored.’

-- The Economist

‘A timely intervention.’

-- TLS

‘[A] well-researched, interesting little book.’

-- The New Statesman

‘Kundnani is right that some Europeans… cling to the misguided idealist belief that the EU should be hailed as a “universal model” that can eradicate genocide, war, colonialism, human rights abuse, and other global problems. This book remains a useful counterpoint to such complacency by showing how the world’s most peaceful, egalitarian, green, and increasingly diverse continent is still far from utopia.’

-- Foreign Affairs

‘Kundnani deftly bursts the bubble of those who idealize the EU as a cosmopolitan project.’

-- Jacobin
‘Fresh and exciting perspectives like Kundnani’s are hard to come by.’ -- Engelsberg Ideas

‘The most intriguing section of Eurowhiteness is Kundnani’s discussion of Brexit.’

-- Areo Magazine

‘Many of [Kundnani’s] points… [are] instructive, useful and true.’

-- Martin Sandbu, Financial Times

‘Kundnani finds a way to provide not only a succinct overview of the existing literature on nationalism, but he also describes… the on-going debates in the European identity scholarship. He takes the necessary leap from there and dives right into the emerging scholarship on post-colonial theories and decolonizing approaches, giving ample credit to those who have paved the way for him.’

-- EuropeNow

‘[A] stimulating new book … [an] illuminating discussion of (Western) Europe and imperialism. … Kundnani articulates justified criticisms of West European parochialism.’

-- CEU Review of Books
‘A trenchant analysis of the European project.’ -- Australian Review of Books

'[Eurowhiteness] offers an intellectually stimulating and policy-relevant departing point to any discussion about the future of Europe.'

-- Informed Comment

‘A thoughtful volume detailing how European integration and the EU are inherently tied to colonization, race, and exclusivity.’

-- Choice

'Deeply honest and kind.'

-- International Affairs

‘An informative, engaging perspective on the culture of the EU and the inescapability of dealing with race in dealing with Europe.’

-- Rebel News
'Kundnani's widely debated book has already become a springboard for a discussion about today's EU and for rethinking our ways of writing the history of the process that created it.' -- Klaus Kiran Patel, H-Soz-Kult, Historisches Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
'A fascinating book challenging the myths surrounding the EU. For some, this will be uncomfortable reading.' -- Anand Menon, Director of UK in a Changing Europe
'Kundnani shows that ideas of race are central to European thinking about politics. In the shadow of Ukraine, it's important for us to face this truth.' -- Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

'A bracing challenge to the myths underlying the "European Project", and to the hollowness of contemporary cosmopolitanism.'

-- Kenan Malik, author of Not So Black and White

'Kundnani asks some hard and important questions about the EU's history, and his answers illuminate a great deal about European self-understanding.'

-- Helen Thompson, co-host of Talking Politics

'Elegantly logical -- and sure to challenge many readers' assumptions.'

-- Brendan Simms, author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy and Britain's Europe
‘A game changer - the first book seriously to explore the racial and ethnic motivations internal to the process of European integration and the formation of the EU.’ -- Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, London School of Econo