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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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‘Not Racism’™: a graphic essay

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

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…

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New Year, New Understanding Race Syllabus

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • February 23, 2022February 26, 2022

Welcome back to Understanding Race. This year I have not made many changes to the syllabus so if you did not get a chance to participate last year, this is an opportunity to access similar content. However, there are some updates including tow new weeks: one…

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Politics, Power & Resistance Syllabus

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • February 22, 2022February 28, 2022

Politics, Power & Resistance is a course I have been teaching since I began at Sussex University in 2006, when it used to called Political Sociology. Since I joined Western Sydney University in 2012 it has gone through a few iterations. And this year I am…

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Women on the Line on Racial Capitalism

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • December 21, 2021December 21, 2021

Ayan Shirwa from Radio 3CR‘s show Women on the Line interviewed me about racial capitalism. You can listen here

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Anti-antisemitism: a proxy war on racism

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • December 16, 2021January 21, 2022

In the last while I have participated in two events that have given me the chance to speak about the fourth chapter of my book, Why Race Still Matters, ‘GoodJew/Bad Jew’. On November 24th, I spoke at the opening panel of the German Rat für Migration’s…

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Introduction to Racial Capitalism

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • November 2, 2021November 16, 2021

Lecture given to the ICS Key Thinkers and Concepts Series. I have included both the recording of the lecture on Zoom (which is in two parts) and the text and slides below that. The text and accompanying slides of the lecture follow: Universities are built on…

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Racism and Health Education

  • By Alana Lentin
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  • October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

I was delighted to have been invited by the LIME Network and Professor Lilon Bandler to speak on a panel on racism and health education as part of the 2021 Staying Connected conference along with Donna Cormack, Marcia Anderson, Donald Whaleboat and the brilliant chairing of…

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