Alana Lentin
Teacher and writer, Alana Lentin is a Jewish European woman who works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. She is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. Her latest book is Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020).
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Race Still Matters
Lentin’s objective in Why Race Still Matters is to provide analytic tools that foster anti-racist struggles and encourage coalitional politics. She insists that race still matters because race is still a structure of domination that produces misery and inequality. She tells us that race still matters because racists still exist. And she articulates the value of an epistemology that foregrounds the standpoint of those who experience racism without slipping uncritically into a performance of deference that fragments collectivity. Why Race Still Matters is a vital book for those who wish to understand race, and more importantly, desire to make it matter less.