I published an article in Mondoweiss arguing against ‘Jewish safety’ as rhetorical support for genocide, building on arguments I make in Chapter Five of The New Racial Regime. Claims that “antisemitism” is being weaponized to support Israel miss that its function has always been to bolster European supremacy. Today, the…
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London Arts and Humanities Partnership Symposium: ‘An Alchemy of the Intentional and the Unintended’
London Arts and Humanities Partnership Symposium: ‘An Alchemy of the Intentional and the Unintended’
Please join us for ‘An Alchemy of the Intentional and the Unintended’: Theoretical and methodological possibilities of Cedric Robinson’s ‘racial regimes’, a 2-day symposium hosted by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) organised by Alana Lentin (Western Sydney University), Tom Six (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), Munotida…
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I’m delighted to be speaking about The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy at a special event at Manchester Museum on June 25. I’ll be joined on a panel with local activists, poets, researchers and political commentators, including Lila Tamea, Khadijah Diskin, Hawwa Alam and Hassan Baig. The event…
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I was invited to present at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at Manchester University in April. My talk presents the main arguments in the fifth and final chapter of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy. A recording is available here. Following Cedric Robinson’s discussion of…
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I really enjoyed this conversation with Adnan Husain about my new book The New Racial Regime. Adnan is an expert of Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic World History, Christian, Muslim, Jewish interfaith relations, Whirling Leftist, Spiritual Materialist, Scholar Activist, A Host of Guerrilla History Podcast and The Adnan Husain Show, Left…
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The New Racial Regime is published today by Pluto Press. I am honoured that Elizabeth P. Robinson agreed to write the foreword. Here’s a part of what she had to say. It gives a sense of the scope of the racial regime as they work to recalibrate in the face…
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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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GET TICKETS HERE Taking the reader beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and moral panics, Alana shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured. The book traces the often chaotic and contradictory restitching of…
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Coordinators: Munotida Chinyanga, Alana Lentin, Mai Omer, Tom Six, Rachel Vogler This interdisciplinary symposium, which is scheduled for July 3-4 2025, will be hosted by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership in collaboration with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. It will explore Cedric Robinson’s concept of the…
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I have been in Europe since early April. I started with a keynote at the the ‘Beyond Polarization and Instrumentalization: Antisemitism and Other Racisms’ conference organised at Lund University on 7-8 April. I also gave a talk about the trajectory to my new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy and its methodology…
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I will be giving a talk titled ‘Against Definitions’ based on the fifth chapter of my new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy, at Manchester University on 22 April, live and online. Register here The first attack is an attack on culture. Marx refused to accept the…
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