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The Campaign to Free The Pendleton 2 with Too Black

Podcaster, poet, author and organiser, Too Black, from one of my favourite podcasts, The Black Myths Podcast, joined me to talk about the documentary,…

Radical Antiracism Today: Organize, Fight, Win

For the second in our series we were joined by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean to discuss their collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist…

Breaking the racial silence: putting racial literacy to work in Australia

A new article by Debbie Bargallie, Nilmini Fernando and me has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies based in research conducted with educators…

Radical Antiracism Today: Fractured

On April 19, we held the first in the Radical Antiracism Today seminar series with Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley, in conversation with Debbie…

Inside the Black Box of White Backlash: Letters of Support to Enoch Powell

Olivier Esteves, the author of the recently published Inside the Black Box of White Backlash: Letters of Support to Enoch Powell asked me to…

Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism

The Culture and Society discipline at my university, Western Sydney University is hosting an online seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist,…

Teaching

Guest lecture: Black Peoples Union President Keiran Stewart-Assheton

I invited Black Peoples Union National President, Yuin man, Keiran Stewart-Assheton to present to The Racial State in Week 6 when we discuss the…

Why gender essentialism is a white supremacist ideology

I am posting this on the International Trans Day of Visibility 2023 in love and solidarity with all people resisting the violences of gender,…

The Limitations of ‘White Privilege’ with Khadijah Diskin

I was delighted that PhD researcher, Black Studies scholar and all round legend, Khadijah Diskin agreed to do a short interview with me about…

Week 1: Race & Power

Interactive presentation Tutorial activity: Conversations about race bingo I updated my introductory lecture to The Racial State. I welcome you to share the slides…

The Racial State 2023

Another year, another litany of racisms, so time to update my course, The Racial State. I’ll be posting some new content for this course,…

Week 11: The Punishing State

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the lecture slides I provide below contain images and names of people who have died.…
Alana Lentin