Week 1: Race & Power

Interactive presentation Tutorial activity: Conversations about race bingo I updated my introductory lecture to The Racial State. I welcome you to share the slides…

Women on the Line on Racial Capitalism

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

Introduction to Racial Capitalism

Lecture given to the ICS Key Thinkers and Concepts Series. I have included both the recording of the lecture on Zoom (which is in…

Race, the floating signifier

Today we had a good discussion about Stuart Hall’s 1997 lecture, ‘Race, the Floating Signifier’ and the accompanying text reproduced in The Fateful Triangle,…

Interview in QG Décolonial

I was so delighted to have been interviewed by Selim Nadi for the brand new online journal QG Décolonial about my book Why Race…

Race & Culture

The link between race and culture, or rather the racialization of culture, and the political manipulation of this situation is central to our understanding…
Sculpture of a Muselmann at Neuengamme concentration camp, Hamburg

Concepts and Debates 2: Race and the Human

This week in the seminar we will continue to discuss issues of social construction and how to define race by engaging with Stuart Hall’s lecture, Race…
This graphic is taken from W.E.B. Du Bois' study of Black people in rural Georgia presented at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. https://hyperallergic.com/306559/w-e-b-du-boiss-modernist-data-visualizations-of-black-life/

Concepts and Debates: Race as a social construct

Welcome to Week 2 of Understanding Race. In Week 1, we got to know each other, discussed our own understandings of race  and decided…

Yassir Morsi and Arun Kundnani on Radical Skin/Moderate Masks

Yassir Morsi discusses his Challenging Migration Studies book, Radical Skin/Moderate Masks at The New School in April 2017. Read more about the event on…
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