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Antisemitism as exception and the proxification of antiracism

A chapter I wrote for in Tatour, L. and Lentin, R. (eds.) Race, Israel and the Colonization of Palestine. Palo Alto CA: Stanford University Press. Introduction For many years I didn’t want to write about antisemitism. When I brought out my short primer, Racism in 2008, my editor asked me to include a…

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Beyond “platitudes of support or denouncement”: researching antiracism at a time of monsters

I contributed a review article to the Ethnic and Racial Studies symposium on John Solomos’ new book, Antiracism: A Critique. The full text can be read open access here. Abstract: As Charisse Burden-Stelly has repeated, following Antonio Gramsci, “now is the time of monsters.” Antiracism is beleaguered, flailing between attacks…

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Key Concepts and Definitions for Building Racial Literacy

Debbie Bargallie and I have produced a guide to racial literacy, ‘Key Concepts and Definitions for Building Racial Literacy.‘ This guide contains 28 definitions and 5 longer explainers of key concepts about race, racism, antiracism, colonialism, and anticolonialism. While the guide was produced with the australian context in mind, it…

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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 trying to work amid the silencing o trace in the Australian racial-colony and to enhance racial literacy. Abstract: Race structures the lives of Indigenous peoples and…

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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 contribute a preface to the book. Looking at letters written to Enoch Powell, the grand majority of which supported his opposition to immigrants is instructive from…

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Against Representation

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 discussing issues of diversity…

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Racism in Public or Public Racism

In my first article on racism and antiracism in Australia, published online first in Ethnic and Racial Studies and part of a special issue  on ‘Reconfiguring Antiracisms’ edited by Yin Paradies, I argue that The idea of racism as an event appears crucial to the judgment of its legitimacy. By…

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Alana Lentin