The New Racial Regime Book Launch

Join a panel of radical thinkers to launch Alana Lentin's new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto Press, 2025).

After the panel discussion and questions from the audience, we will share light food and refreshments. Books will be on sale at a 40% discount.

All ticket sales will be split evenly between families in Gaza and Mob Strong General Fund (all funds go towards active mutual aid campaigns for Blackfullas).

About the book:

Accessible, rigorous, and unequivocal, The New Racial Regime is the principled treatise we sorely need in this “time of monsters” – Charisse Burden-Stelly, author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley, ‘anti-wokeness is the perfect example of the functioning of the racial regime.’ Taking the reader beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and moral panics, 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.

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 the ways that the state mandated ‘war on antisemitism’ reforms white supremacism in a 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.

About the speakers:

Alana Lentin is a Jewish anti-Zionist teacher and writer who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land. She is the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto Press 2025) and Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020) among other writing on race and antiracism. She works as a Professor at Western Sydney University.

Keiran Stewart-Assheton is a proud Aboriginal man from the occupied Yuin Nation. He is community leader, and revolutionary theorist with over 15 years of organising experience. He is the founding president of the Black People's Union, and a radio show host who uses his platform to amplify First Nations voices and connect local struggles to global movements.

Kaiya Aboagye is an Afro-Indigenous writer and scholar in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Her PhD research examines the entangled histories of African diasporic and Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander people within the framework of Indigenous sovereignty.

Shawna Tang is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney with a focus on postcolonial Singapore, and Asia. She studies how queer identities, communities and politics need to take seriously questions of race, nationalism, capitalism and geopolitics. She is the author of Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore.

The event is supported by the Western Sydney University School of Humanities & Communications Arts.