"The weaponized anxieties of the racially illerate" with Alana Lentin (OUR003)

In this episode we speak with race-critical scholar Alana Lentin about the dangers of racial illiteracy, why talk of race makes so many (mostly white) people so anxious, and how "not racism" became the dominant paradigm for talking about race and racism today. Alana Lentin is Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is a European and West Asian Jewish woman who is a settler on Gadigal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. Latest book, Why Race Still Matters, is now out from Polity.