02/06/2026
The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present Season II, Episode III, with teacher and writer Alana Lentin, and the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto, 2025).
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, there was a short-lived boom in highly visible corporate DEI. But as soon as it entered public awareness, it sparked a vicious backlash from conservatives, including Christopher Rufo. What was DEI “worth” in a real sense, and how did attacks on critical race theory prefigure the Trump Administration’s current behavior?
Our guest this month, Alana Lentin ( has studied this phenomenon and discusses a global perspective on racism, white supremacy, zionism, and the direction that settler-colonial states are headed in.
Teacher and writer, Alana Lentin, is a Jewish anti-Zionist European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racial capitalism, and antiracism and is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto 2025) and Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020). Previously, she published The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age with Gavan Titley (Zed, 2011), Racism: A beginner’s guide (2008), and Racism and Antiracism in Europe (Pluto, 2004). She co-edits the Lexington Books ‘Challenging Migration Studies’ books series and the ‘Decolonization and Social Worlds’ series at Bristol University Press. She is a member of the Founding Collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (). Her academic and media articles, as well as videos, podcasts, and teaching materials, are free to be used and available at www.alanalentin.net.
Listen to Alana Lentin’s oral history and full discussion with the Resistant Communiqués Podcast at the link in our bio: bit.ly/rc2026alanalentin
