Debbie Bargallie and I wrote about the Australian right’s attack on Critical Race Theory as a signalled by Liberal senator and Assistant Attorney General, Amanda Stoker’s pressure on the Australian Human Rights’s Commission to drop a recent tender after it invoked ‘anti racism’ which she said…
Andrew Brooks has reviewed Why Race Still Matters for the Sydney Review of Books. I am very grateful for the care he took to relate to the book through a wide engagement with the politics of race in colonial Australia and what it means for his…
UPDATE: You can now watch a recording of this event here 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…
I was invited by Donna Nevel to participate in a panel organised by Jewish Voice for Peace, South Florida among some really great speakers, Barry Trachtenberg, Jamil Dakwar, Mark Tseng-Putterman, Meena Jagganath moderated by Martha Schoolman. The video of the event is below and the text…
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…