We are incredibly excited to be hosting the London launch of Alana Lentin’s fantastic new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy.
Taking the reader beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and moral panics, Alana shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured.
The book traces the often chaotic and contradictory restitching of the racial regime through the attacks on Critical Race Theory; the ‘whitelash’ against the teaching of histories of slavery and colonialism; the counterinsurgent capture and institutionalisation of antiracism, Indigeneity and decoloniality in the interests of Zionism, settler colonialism, and imperialism; and how the state mandated ‘war on antisemitism’ reforms white supremacism at an acute time of genocide.
While the racial regime undergoes constant recalibration, its inherent instability is the consequence of continual resistance from below. Maintaining and deepening that resistance is vital at a time of rapidly mounting fascism.
Alana Lentin is a teacher and scholar working on the critical theorisation of race, racism and anti-racism. She is a Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, the author of Why Race Still Matters and a Founding Collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She lives on Gadigal-Wangal land (Sydney, Australia).
Alana will be joined in conversation by Tom Six, Momodou Taal, Yasmin Elsouda and Amardeep Singh Dhillon.
Bar opens 6pm
Talk begins 6:30pm
Social from 8pm