A word on sociogeny and ‘lived experience’

The work on this course, Understanding Race, is a work in progress. When I began teaching it in 2018 I had the ambition of…

Thinking blackly beyond bio politics and bare life

Alexander Weheliye’s 2014 book, Habeas Viscus is a vital critique of two dominant accounts of the limits and contours of humanity: Michel Foucault’s biopolitics and Giorgio…

The scholars, scholarship and scholarly histories denied

This is the fourth blog post in my Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology series for my course at The New School Department of Sociology…
Alana Lentin