This introduction\nto race and racism, published in 2008, is a remarkably approachable text. Alana\nLentin, maybe one of the most lucid race scholars around at the moment, is able\nto demystify some very complex ideas and relationships. Of course, clocking in\nat 150 pages, the book can\u2019t cover absolutely everything, and must sometimes\nforego some detail and depth, but it provides an excellent entry point into\ndeveloping racial literacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lentin takes her\nreader through the emergence of race as a category in the Enlightenment, and\nits entanglements with nationalism, nation-building and the nation-state. She\ntouches on thinkers regarded as key at the time, like Thomas Hobbes and John\nLocke, making their particular contributions to discourses of race manageable.\nIn-depth discussion of colonialism and the lived experience of racism give her\naccount not only theoretical rigour, but a textured sense of why these\nquestions really matter not as abstract concepts to be philosophised about, but\nas structures of meaning-making with real-world ramifications. Her accounts of\nthese are buttressed by careful readings of major postcolonial scholars like\nFrantz Fanon and Stuart Hall. With chapters also on antisemitism and\nimmigration policy after the attacks of September 11th<\/sup>, this book\noffers a wide-ranging view of how its core concepts develop and continue to\nstructure policy-making and political rhetoric. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you are\nwell-versed in some of these issues and looking to refine your understanding,\nor a complete novice looking for a way in, this beginner\u2019s guide can offer you\nthe language and the tools to develop your literacy in questions of race and\nracism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alana Lentin, maybe one of the most lucid race scholars around at the moment, demystifies central questions surrounding race and racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[130,132,131],"class_list":["post-14397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-alana-lentin","tag-non-fiction","tag-racism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16708,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions\/16708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}