Titley, Gavan and Lentin, Alana (2021) Islamophobia, race and the attack on antiracism: Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin in conversation. French Cultural Studies, 32 (3). pp. 296-310. ISSN 0957-1558

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Abstract

In our work together, going back to the mid-2000s, we have always felt that it was impossible to engage fully with the ever circulating, scavenger nature of race and racism from the narrow Anglo-American vantage point that often predominates and orients public and scholarly discussions. Especially, when attempting to think with and against race in Europe and to excavate the attempts to ‘bury it alive’ we always attempted to seek out the parallels and overlaps between contexts that attempted to portray themselves as distinct, mirroring indeed the sedimentation created by a politics of race. Reading race in France, and in particular over the last two decades Islamophobia, has been central to that work in common. In this conversation, we reflect on debates on race, coloniality and the spectre of ‘Islamo-leftism’ in the France of 2020–2021, against the backdrop of both a global pandemic and a worldwide movement against racial violence. Through this dialogue, we think about what has changed, and what remains the same, ending with a recognition of the international importance of decolonial and political antiracist politics in France and the energy they inspire in the face of the most reactionary of forces.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Titley, G., & Lentin, A. (2021). Islamophobia, race and the attack on antiracism: Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin in conversation. French Cultural Studies, 32(3), 296-310. https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211027062
Keywords:	France; decoloniality; ‘Islamo-leftism’; Islamophobia; political antiracism; race; racism;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
Item ID:	18010
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211027062
Depositing User:	Gavan Titley
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2024 11:20
Journal or Publication Title:	French Cultural Studies
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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