PARCEO is a community research, resource, and education centre. They partner with groups to strengthen our collective work for justice. Recently they invited me to reflect on something I had written in Why Race Still Matters (2020): For White Jews such as myself (…) we must recognize the ways in which…
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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 to inquire if I’d…
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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 recitations of racism? This…
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I was delighted to gave been invited by Luke De Noronha to chat with Gargi Bhattacharyya about matters of race online at the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. We focused on their approach to racial capitalism in their book Rethinking racial Capitalism which…
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Everyone knows how much I love the Surviving Society podcast with Chantelle Lewis and Tissot Regis, produced by George Ofori-Addo. So I was absolutely delighted to be invited back to talk about my feelings about my book more or less 1 year after its publication, a year of crisis and…
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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 own activism and teaching.…
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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 political utility of antisemitism…
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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.
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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 Décolonial », Alana Lentin revient…
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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 of analyses, pulling from…
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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. She covers a great…
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