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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…