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Deauthenticating Fanon: self-organised anti-racism and the politics of experience

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:03 authored by Alana Lentin
Speaking about racism in the western political climate of the first decade of the twenty-first century is more difficult than ever before. There is a feeling in post-colonial and post-immigration societies that the blatant overt racism of the past is no longer as pressing. Admitting racism elicits discomfort because common wisdom tells us that racism opposes everything that we believe in as citizens of democratic, "civilised" modern states. Yet state racism appears to be here to stay and, in many ways, is more acceptable than ever before. Immigration detention centres, the deportation of "failed" asylum seekers and "illegal" immigrants, racial profiling and the rolling back of liberties won by the civil rights movement are all examples of how state racism impacts on our daily lives. "Race and State" contributes to breaking the taboo of discussing the links between "race" and state. The papers collected in this book highlight the interconnections between "race" and state, from historical, theoretical or contemporary sociological perspectives. Part I of the book looks at theoretical issues in conceptualising the "race"-state relationship. Part II examines racism in its most pernicious contemporary manifestation: the racialisation of "terror". Part III, on the racial state(s) of Ireland, is an important addition to the debate, examining Ireland as a "test case" for demonstrating and interpreting the relationship between "race" and state.

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  • Published

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars' Press

Page range

53-70

Pages

18.0

Book title

Race and State

Place of publication

Cambridge

ISBN

9781847180018

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Notes

The article `Deauthenticating Fanon: Self-organised anti-racism and the politics of Experience¿ (pp 53-70) lies within an edited book that Lentin also co-edited, and co-wrote the introduction of (pp 1-14). The volume emerged from an international conference co-organised by the authors, Trinity College Dublin (2005). Speakers included Howard Winant and Les Back. The book benefits from a contribution from David Theo Goldberg whose The Racial State is a key text in the field. Lentin¿s piece on Fanon is based on an invited paper to the Department of History, Columbia University (2004).

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Editors

Alana Lentin, Ronit Lentin

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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