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‘Not Racism’™: a graphic essay

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

A graphic essay based on Chapter 2 of Why Race Still Matters has been published by The New Socialist. Visit the site for close ups! Take a tour on Prezi ‘I’m not racist but…’ Why is this conversation starter always followed up with the most egregious…

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Interview: Millennials are Killing Capitalism

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • January 16, 2023January 17, 2023

Happy New Year! I was delighted that 2022 ended with a two-part interview on one of my favourite podcasts, the incredible Millennials are Killing Capitalism. Josh Briond, one of the duo that runs the podcast along with Jared Ware, reached out to me some time back…

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Seeking Your Help – Crowd-sourcing resources on the ‘war on critical race theory’

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • August 29, 2022August 30, 2022

As you know, unless you have been living under a rock (!), a war on something being named ‘critical race theory’ has been waged since the end of 2020. There are many explanations for the meaning of this, some of which I hope to be able…

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Against Representation

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

I reviewed How To Lose Friends and Influence White People, a book being marketed as an antiracist manual, by Media Diversity Australia founder, Antoinette Lattouf. There is a concerning trend of so-called trade books referencing the brutal state murder of George Floyd as a vehicle for…

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On Race and Racial Literacy with Surviving Society

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

I recently had a wonderful trip to Europe after not leaving ‘Australia’ for two and a half years. During the protracted covid-induced border closures I brought out my last book Why Race Still Matters. This gave me the opportunity to connect with a lot of wonderful…

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Week 11: The Punishing State

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • May 15, 2022May 17, 2022

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the lecture slides I provide below contain images and names of people who have died. This week we are looking at the role of punishment in modern society, predominantly the exponential growth of prisons. What role do…

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Race as a technology

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

As well as adding to Understanding Race, this post responds and adds to two recent conversations I had, one with Khadijah Diskin and Josh Briond on the Return to the Source podcast and the other with Momodou Taal on The Malcolm Effect podcast. In my book…

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Week 9: Gender & Power

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

After mid-semester break, this week we looked at gender and power mainly through the lens of social reproduction and the colonialist of gender. The main readings for the week were by Silvia Federici and the Combahee River Collective Statement. This week I invited Professor Alison Phipps,…

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What is Race? An interview with Momodou Taal

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 26, 2022April 26, 2022

People who know me know I love podcasts and one of those I love and listen to every episode of is The Malcolm Effect with Momodu Taal, who is a brilliant young thinker. Therefore, I was so honoured to have been invited to speak to him…

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Week 7: Anti-Poverty Activism

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

This week we were joined by Kristin O’Connell of the Antipoverty Centre. Kristin gave us an extremely informative and searing lecture about the corruption of the government’s work for the dole – which especially affects Aboriginal communities – and mutual obligations schemes. She also paid attention…

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Week 6: Stigma Power

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

This week we have been reading segments from Imogen Tyler‘s fantastic book, Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality. I invite you to explore Imogen’s website for plenty of excellent resources on the book, especially the excellent graphic essay, From Stigma Power to Black Power. This connects really…

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