Alana Lentin’s The New Racial Regime
In The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy Alana Lentin shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured.
Throughout the book, the often chaotic and contradictory restitching of the racial regime is traced 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.
To discuss the shape that this resistance takes, Alana will be joined by local activists, poets, researchers and political commentators, including Lila Tamea, Khadijah Diskin, Hawwa Alam and Hassan Baig.
This event is brought to you by the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) Anti-Racist Education Network, in collaboration with Manchester Museum, and supported by the UCU, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the School of Education, Environment and Development (SEED) EDI team.
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