"Resistant Communiqués: Alana Lentin on the Racial Regime: Race, Fascism, and the Limits of Liberal Anti-Racism.” (S2, E3)

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"Resistant Communiqués: Alana Lentin on the Racial Regime: Race, Fascism, and the Limits of Liberal Anti-Racism.” (S2, E3)

Resistant Communiqués Podcast, S2, E3 | Alana Lentin joins the Resistant Communiqués Podcast on The New Racial Regime

Resistant Communiqués Podcast, Jamila Hammami, and Alana Lentin

May 31, 2026

We are pleased to return after a brief spring break as we transition to bring on more Co-Collaborators and Collective Members as we continue to grow. We appreciate our co-learners’ patience as we continue to architect the critical, sustainable infrastructure to maintain the analysis of the Resistant Communiqués Collective and Podcast, ensuring rich and robust decolonial interviewing, research, and practice.

Due to our brief April absence, we are pleased to bring you an extended May episode.

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 (ICSZ). Her academic and media articles, as well as videos, podcasts, and teaching materials, are free to be used and available at www.alanalentin.net

Here is our interview with Alana…

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The Multimedia Syllabus below is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research.

Please note: Due to Substack’s interface, some of the bibliography items below are linked directly rather than correctly formatted with hyperlinks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The War on Critical Race Theory

99 ZU EINS. (2021, September 19). [ENG] The War on Anti-Semitism with Anna-Esther Younes—99 ZU EINS - Ep. 54 [Video]. YouTube.
Rodríguez, D. (2024, April 10). How the Stop Asian Hate Movement Became Entwined with Zionism, Policing, and Counterinsurgency. University of Minnesota Press. Critical Ethnic Studies. http://www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2024/4/10/how-the-stop-asian-hate-movement-became-entwined-with-zionism-policing-and-counterinsurgency
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live! (2025, June 13). Dylan Rodríguez on Lexical Warfare & Counterinsurgency [Video]. YouTube.

Foundations: History, Race, White Supremacy & the Black Radical Tradition

Morse, C. (2014, June 20). Capitalism, Marxism, and the Black Radical Tradition: An Interview with Cedric Robinson | Chuck Morse. https://www.cwmorse.org/capitalism-marxism-and-the-black-radical-tradition-an-interview-with-cedric-robinson/
Myers, J., & McNeil, A. (Hosts). (2022, March 9). Joshua Myers, “Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition” (Polity, 2021) - New Book Network [Broadcast]. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/cedric-robinson
Pluto Press. (2025, May 19). Democratic Living in Times of Fascism [Video]. YouTube.
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live! (2024, June 4). Cedric J. Robinson & Elizabeth P. Robinson’s Archives Unbound: Initial Reflections [Video]. YouTube.
Trinity Social Justice Institute. (2022, August 22). Conjuncture: Against Pessimism | S2 Ep 1 [Conjuncture]. [Video]. YouTube.

Globalization of white supremacy

Lentin, A. (2026, January 13). Understanding the relationship between Zionism and Fascism. Alana Lentin. https://www.alanalentin.net/2026/01/13/understanding-the-relationship-between-zionism-and-fascism/

Zionism and the WEB Du Bois “Color line”

Seriff-Cullick, M. (2025, December 29). How White Folks Became Jews: The War on Black Antisemitism and the Recalibration of Racial Regimes - Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism [Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism]. https://criticalzionismstudies.org/jcsz-how-white-folks-became-jews/

Zionist cooptation of Indigeneity

Brager, S. (2021, October 13). When Settler Becomes Native. Jewish Currents. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/when-settler-becomes-native
Ali, S. (2026, January 29). Weaponizing Indigeneity: Zionist Media Discourse on Possessing Palestine. Contending Modernities.https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/weaponizing-indigeneity-palestine/

Resisting liberal formations of anti-racism

Lentin, A. (2021, November 2). Introduction to Racial Capitalism. Alana Lentin. https://www.alanalentin.net/2021/11/02/introduction-to-racial-capitalism/
Burden-Stelly, C. (2020). Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights. Monthly Review, Vol. 72(No. 03 (July-August 2020). https://monthlyreview.org/articles/modern-u-s-racial-capitalism/
Yancy, G. (2021, February 1). Reaching Beyond “Black Faces in High Places”: An Interview With Joy James. Truthout. Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/reaching-beyond-black-faces-in-high-places-an-interview-with-joy-james/
Briond, J. (2021, June 19). Rock-A-Bye Baby: On the State’s Legitimation of Juneteenth and Liberal Concessions as Political Anesthetization In Slavery’s Afterlives. Hampton Institute.https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/rock-a-bye-baby-on-the-states-legitimation-of-juneteenth-and-liberal-concessions-as-political-anesthetization-in-slaverys-afterlives

Liberal Anti-Racism and Fascism

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (Host). (2023, September 9). Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “Attica Is an Ongoing Structure of Revolt” - Orisanmi Burton on Tip of the Spear, Black Radicalism, Prison Rebellion, and the Long Attica Revolt [Broadcast]. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/attica-is-an-ongoing-structure-of-revolt-orisanmi-burton-on-tip-of-the-spear-black-radicalism-prison-rebellion-and-the-long-attica-revolt

Additional Topics, Themes, and Works Discussed:

Anderson, S. E. (with Holley, V.). (1995). The Black Holocaust for Beginners. Writers and Readers.
Equal Justice Initiative. (2022). The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Equal Justice Initiative Reports. https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/
Jackson, G. (1996). Blood in My Eye. Black Classic Press. (Original work published 1971)
Kadi, A. (2016, September 10). Palestinians back Standing Rock Sioux in “struggle for all humanity” [Text]. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/andrew-kadi/palestinians-back-standing-rock-sioux-struggle-all-humanity
Parrish, W. (2019, August 25). The U.S. Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor Are Putting a Native American Reservation Under “Persistent Surveillance.” The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2019/08/25/border-patrol-israel-elbit-surveillance/

Listen to the Music of the Movement.

Collaborator’s Choices:
kooriland4eva. (2009, January 15). Aboriginal Land by Nadine Dixon [Video]. [YouTube].
Gil Scott-Heron - Topic. (2015, October 24). Black History/ The World [Video}. [Youtube].