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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Endorsements are in for my new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy. I am more than honoured that Elizabeth Peters Robinson has written a beautiful Foreword to the book. The book is now available for pre-order from Pluto Press. The radical scholars, Dylan Rodríguez, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Steven…
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I was asked to speak at an important event organised by the Italian University workers for Palestine Network to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2025, Proteggere la Memoria: la Shoah, Gaza e la storia (Protect Memory: the Shoah, Gaza and History). 27 January has been the annual International Day of…
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I’ll be using SubStack to write about various matters. Lately I have written on why it is dangerous for antiracist groups to advocate for legislating against ‘hate crimes’ and the bizarre case against journalist Antoinette Lattouf by her former employer, the ABC, which suggested that because it is difficult to…
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My new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy, will be out on May 20 2025 with Pluto Press. As Robin D.G. Kelley puts it, ‘anti-wokeness is the perfect example of the functioning of the racial regime.’ Taking the reader beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and…
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In 2021, I wrote a blog post on a phenomenon I named ‘power plagiarism’. Power plagiarism is defined as: when a work of scholarship is used to inform someone’s work, but when the trace of that work is erased and only the primary source cited by the work consulted are…
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The Radical Antiracism Today seminar series hosted by Culture & Society at Western Sydney University invites you to celebrate the publication of Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, edited by Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando and published in the Decolonizaton & Social Worlds series at Bristol University Press. REGISTER HERE The…
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Debbie Bargallie and I have produced a guide to racial literacy, ‘Key Concepts and Definitions for Building Racial Literacy.‘ This guide contains 28 definitions and 5 longer explainers of key concepts about race, racism, antiracism, colonialism, and anticolonialism. While the guide was produced with the australian context in mind, it…
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A 3-part interview I did with Radio Blue Mountains Rights, Rorts and Rants show in May 2024.
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I was asked to give a guest lecture in my colleague Arunima Das’ course, Politics of Sex & Gender: Gender & Race. I was especially delighted as Arinima was my PhD student and to has been such a joy working alongside her now as a colleague at Western Sydney University.…
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A seminar held at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University on 11 November 2024 with Ronit Lentin, Amani Haydar and myself, and chaired by Juan Francisco Salazar. How do academics and cultural workers draw attention to the collusion by their institutions without falling into the trap…
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