On September 17, I gave a talk at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Postracial Silences. In it I explored the themes I have taken up in four recent papers on the occlusion of race in mainstream sociology and the foreclosure of racism, which has become…
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A new article by me has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies as part of a Symposium in response to an article by the British sociologist of ‘race relations’, Michael Banton. My article argues that we should understand race in terms of what it does instead of what it is…
Comments closedOn April 23 I was invited to talk at the City University of New York Graduate Center by the European Union Studies Center, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Committee for the Study of Religion, Political Science, and Sociology and Just Publics. Here are the slides from my…
Comments closedI was asked to participate in an event recently organised by the Philosophy @ UWS initiative, Encountering the Author, a discussion of Blood: A Critique of Christianity by the Columbia University Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Gil Anidjar. I could not attend but produced…
Comments closedIn December 2013, I organised this conversation with Sohail Daulatzai, Aamer Rahman and Suvendrini Perera. Enjoy!
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Valerie Amiraux and I published an article on French Presidential elections Socialist Candidate, Francois Hollande’s plan to take the word ‘race’ out of the French constitution. The ful version of the article, reproduced below, was republished by the Les Mots Sont Importants Website. The Le Monde version was entitled, Retirer le mot « race » de la Constitution ne règle rien, and is an edited version of the full article.
Il n’y a aucun doute : la campagne pour les présidentielles 2012 a fait de la diversité culturelle, et en particulier de celle qu’incarnent les musulmans de France, un sujet central des positionnements de tous les protagonistes. Ces dernières semaines, cette agaçante évidence a mué en quelque chose de répugnant à mesure que se sont déployés les tirs croisés d’une véritable guerre culturelle engagée pour sauver les valeurs de la République et protéger les citoyens français.