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…
‘Not Racism’™: a graphic essay
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…
In Conversation at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre
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…
Reflecting on Why Race Still Matters 1 year on with Surviving Society
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…
Sydney Review of Books
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…
RACE.ED event series – ‘Antisemitism and the proxification of antiracism’- 17 February 2021
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…
The egregious Sewell report only bolsters those who want to discredit antiracism
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…
What we talk about when we talk about race?
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.
Interview in QG Décolonial
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 reviewed in Sociology
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…