My latest book, Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020) was published in the UK on April 24 2020. Click here to buy For updates about readings, interviews and related online events please check my Twitter and my new account @alanalentinwriter on Instagram ‘Why are you making…
An article I wrote for the Guardian UK on the report of the Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities has been published. It it I build on my theorisation of ‘not racism’ as a form of discursive racial violence, developed in Why Race Still Matters. I…
I was really honoured to have been asked by David Rutledge to talk about Why Race Still Matters on the ABC Radio National The Philosopher’s Zone show. The interview was broadcast on February 28, 2021. You can listen to the recording here.
An article I wrote for the left Jewish publication, Vashti Media looking at the accusations of antisemitism against major anticolonial thinkers, Houria Bouteldja and Achille Mbembe. I conclude, For white Jews, such as myself, we must also recognise the ways in which we benefit from racial…
I was so delighted to have been interviewed by Selim Nadi for the brand new online journal QG Décolonial about my book Why Race Still Matters. This is in French. An English version will be published in the coming weeks. Dans cet entretien avec le « QG…
Why Race Still Matters has been reviewed in a review essay by Chinelo L. Njaka, titled ‘Race and Racism(s): Current Debates in Global and UK Theorisation and Empiricism’ in the journal Sociology. Njaka writes, The most prominent strength of Why Race Still Matters is the breadth and depth…
Season 1 of the Race in Society web series I co-produced with the critical race scholar, Dr Zuleyka Zevallos, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. All seven episodes are now available and feature a range of the most important Indigenous and race critical…
I will be speaking online about ‘Antisemitism and the Proxification of Antiracism’, the subject of the 4th chapter of Why Race Still Matters to the University of Edinburgh Race.Ed seminar series on February 17. The political utility of antisemitism today is not to illuminate the operations…
I was delighted to receive this insightful book review by Siobhan O’Neill in The Sociological Review. O’Neill writes, In Why Race Still Matters Lentin offers a wide-ranging, powerful and timely account of what race is, what is does, and why it still matters in our supposedly ‘post-racial’ times.…
I was honoured to be invited to participate in the Courageous Conversations series of talks organised by Professor Malinda Smith. The talk addressed the argument in the second chapter of my book on how those who set themselves up as ‘contarian academics’ make the definition of…
On 1 December 2020 on 7pm, I am delighted to be launching my book, Why Race Still Matters along with Gavan Titley‘s Is Free Speech Racist? at Sydney’s Gleebooks (online) in the company of Dr Debbie Bargallie, author of Unmasking the Racial Contract, and Angela Saini,…