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 scholars in Australia alongside…
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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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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 racism the linchpin of…
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On 1 December 2020 on 7pm, I am delighted to be launching my book, Why Race Still Matters along with Gavan Titley‘s Is Free Speech Racist? at Sydney’s Gleebooks (online) in the company of Dr Debbie Bargallie, author of Unmasking the Racial Contract, and Angela Saini, author of Superior: The…
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A comparative political sociology of anti-racism in Europe, showing the various discourses within this movement
Paperback ISBN: 9780745322209
eBook ISBN: 9781783718641
Published by Pluto Press in Jun 2004
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I was touched to have been awarded the School of Humanities and Communication Arts Researcher of the Year award 2020 at my institution, Western Sydney University. The prize was awarded for the paper, ‘Looking As White: anti-racism apps, appearance and racialized embodiment’, published in the journal Identities, and soon in…
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In response to attacks on academic freedom against French educators working on race and decolonial issues, I drafted an open letter along with my friend and colleague Gavan Titley, and with the help of Professor Philippe Marliere, signed by over 500 people, and published in Open Democracy. A French version,…
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Debbie Bargallie and myself wrote an article for Croakey magazine on the need for racial literacy in Australian schools. Against the backdrop of a relentless pandemic and Black protest around the Global North, racial literacy is urgent. Bestseller lists and bookshop display tables are stacked high with volumes promising answers…
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I was delighted to have been invited to join Katharine Halls from the Jewish-Muslim Research Network in conversation about my book, Why Race Still Matters. A video of the discussion during which I answered questions from Katharine and participants in the webinar is below.
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A short blog post I wrote for the Polity Books website about my new book Why Race Still Matters. The dominant approach to race after the Holocaust, particularly for most of the European states that positioned themselves as anti-fascist, has been to treat it as a taboo topic. However, brushing…
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I am delighted to be working with Dr Zuleyka Zevallos on a new project – a web series of conversations about race and racism in Australia from a sociological perspective. Our first season deals with the theme of ‘Race and Covid’ can can be found on our YouTube channel. The…
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