Professor Alana Lentin

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I am a teacher and writer, and a Jewish European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land. I work on the critical theorization of race, racial and antiracism. I have previously lived and worked in countries including the UK, France, Italy, Ireland and the US. I speak English, French, Italian and Hebrew. My work has been cited over 5,600 times.

I am a Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University and a member of its Institute for Culture and Society.

I am also a Founding Collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

My new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy is out in May 2025 with Pluto Press.

I am currently working on 

• Anticolonial Racial Literacy, a research node project funded by the WSU School of Arts, co-led with Associate Professort Quah Ee Ling with a research team from the SoA and the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney.
• Indigenous Perspectives on Racial Capitalism. This builds on research published with Indigenous Critical Race Professor, Debbie Bargallie, in a 2026 special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies on Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy, edited by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Amanda Lewis.
• Racial Regimes International Interdisciplinary Research Network, with cultural studies scholar Tom Six,  established with support from the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) for an inaugural symposium held at University College London in July 2025.
• Afro-Indigenous Relationalities Lab, with Kaiya Aboagye, supported by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University in 2025. This work, grounded in Indigenous, African and Pasifika knowledges, is currently being developed to include partners from the Pacific region and Indigenous and decolonial scholars in North America and Europe. 

I previously published Why Race Still Matters (Polity, 2020). A graphic essay based on the second chapter of the book, ‘Not Racism’ came out in 2022.

I co-edit the Lexington-Bloomsbury book series, Challenging Migration Studies, with Gavan Titley and the Decolonization and Social Worlds book series at Bristol University Press with Ali Meghji, Jairo Fúnez-Flores and Farid Alatas.

I am also editing the section on Antiracism Mobilisations and Resistance of the Routledge Encylopaedia of Race and Racism with Maria Elena Indelicato.

In 2023 I coordinated the Online seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism with Quah Ee Ling. In 2020, I coordinated the Race in Society web series on Race and Covid-19 with Zuleyka Zevallos. I create teaching resources including interviews with scholars and activists and make them available on my website and YouTube channel.

I was the President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (2017-20).

In 2022, I coedited an edition of Debris, an Australian literary magazine.

I am on the editorial boards of Journal of Intercultural Studies, Identities, Journal of Australian Studies, Vagabonds, Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives  Identities, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. 

In addition, I publish regularly in Ethnic and Racial Studies, the European Journal Social Theory, Identities, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Patterns of Prejudice among other journals. I have also contributed to The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, and Eurozine among other media. I am regularly interviewed for podcasts including Surviving Society, Millennials and Killing Capitalism, The Malcolm Effect, Yeah Nah Pasaran and more. 

I have been invited to discuss my work at academic and public fora around the world.

During a 2017 stay as the Hans Speier Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, I wrote a series on Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology. I followed this up with another series on Understanding Race.

Earlier, with Gavan Titley, I conducted during a visiting fellowship at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, looked at the purported crisis of multiculturalism as the contemporary articulation of racism in a neoliberal age. Our book, The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (with a preface by Gary Younge), was published by Zed Books in 2011. 

A special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies on Multiculturalism, edited by Gavan Titley and I, gathering articles by Les Back, Arun Kundnani, Peter Hervik, Ronit Lentin and others was published in April 2012.

In 2014, I coedited Racism and Sociology with Wulf D. Hund.

My first book published in 2004 is entitled Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2004). I have also co-edited Race and State with Ronit Lentin (Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2006), the paperback edition of which was published in September 2008.

In 2008, I published an accessible insight into my approach to racism, Racism, (OneWorld). A US version of this book, Racism and Ethnic Discrimination was published by Rosen in 2011.  The book was also turned into an audiobook, read by Rodney Gardiner (Bolinda, 2012).

The Politics of Diversity in Europe, co-edited with Gavan Titley of the National University of Ireland, is published by the Council of Europe in 2008.