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The new racial regime – weaponising race to uphold white supremacy

Themrise Khan, an independent researcher and writer based in Canada, and co-editor of the wonderful edited volume, White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences, published a review of The New Racial Regime in the LSE Review of Books. She concludes that, in describing how the fight for liberation…

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Beyond “platitudes of support or denouncement”: researching antiracism at a time of monsters

I contributed a review article to the Ethnic and Racial Studies symposium on John Solomos’ new book, Antiracism: A Critique. The full text can be read open access here. Abstract: As Charisse Burden-Stelly has repeated, following Antonio Gramsci, “now is the time of monsters.” Antiracism is beleaguered, flailing between attacks…

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Why Race Still Matters reviewed in Sociology

Why Race Still Matters has been reviewed in a review essay by Chinelo L. Njaka, titled ‘Race and Racism(s): Current Debates in Global and UK Theorisation and Empiricism’ in the journal Sociology. Njaka writes, The most prominent strength of Why Race Still Matters is the breadth and depth of analyses, pulling from…

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Why Race Still Matters book review in The Sociological Review

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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Alana Lentin