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Race as a technology

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

As well as adding to Understanding Race, this post responds and adds to two recent conversations I had, one with Khadijah Diskin and Josh Briond on the Return to the Source podcast and the other with Momodou Taal on The Malcolm Effect podcast. In my book…

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Week 9: Gender & Power

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

After mid-semester break, this week we looked at gender and power mainly through the lens of social reproduction and the colonialist of gender. The main readings for the week were by Silvia Federici and the Combahee River Collective Statement. This week I invited Professor Alison Phipps,…

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What is Race? An interview with Momodou Taal

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 26, 2022April 26, 2022

People who know me know I love podcasts and one of those I love and listen to every episode of is The Malcolm Effect with Momodu Taal, who is a brilliant young thinker. Therefore, I was so honoured to have been invited to speak to him…

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Week 7: Anti-Poverty Activism

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

This week we were joined by Kristin O’Connell of the Antipoverty Centre. Kristin gave us an extremely informative and searing lecture about the corruption of the government’s work for the dole – which especially affects Aboriginal communities – and mutual obligations schemes. She also paid attention…

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Week 6: Stigma Power

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

This week we have been reading segments from Imogen Tyler‘s fantastic book, Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality. I invite you to explore Imogen’s website for plenty of excellent resources on the book, especially the excellent graphic essay, From Stigma Power to Black Power. This connects really…

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Week 5: Indigenous Resistance

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • April 2, 2022April 2, 2022

This week is our second ‘perspective’ (or case study) week, bringing together some of the themes discussed in weeks 1-4 by zoning in on Indigenous Resistance in ‘Australia’, and specifically the Aboriginal Black Power Movement and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The purpose of perspective weeks (like…

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Week 4: Global Health Inequities

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • March 27, 2022April 2, 2022

This week, we were honoured to have a guest lecture from Dr Chris Lemoh. Dr Lemoh focused on the impacts of Covid-19 on health justice. We also focused on vaccine apartheid, particularly in tutorial activities The talk was structured around three questions: What has COVID-19 revealed…

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Week 3: The Coloniality of Power

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • March 18, 2022March 19, 2022

This week’s focus is the Coloniality of Power. I begin by establishing what is at stake using Russia’s current war on Ukraine as an example. It has not escaped notice that the approach to the 3 million Ukrainian refugees who have so far fled the country…

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Week 2: Why Everything Costs Money

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • March 10, 2022March 10, 2022

This week is a ramble through some basic idea about capitalism, how it works and what it means for us. I found a lot of cool things online that help students understand profit and surplus value, etc. A good tool someone has by David Murphy is…

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Week 1: “All Power to the People”

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • March 3, 2022

For the first week of my undergraduate course, Politics, Power and resistance, we are going to looking at the Black Panther Party’s understanding of politics as war. We are also going to be thinking about the epistemic questions arising from whose knowledge we foreground. The ethos…

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