'Extraordinary ... The New Racial Regime works from an archival foundation of Black and
Indigenous liberationist and anti-colonialist thinkers honing analytical tools that make
sense of the ongoing racial reconstructionist moment' Dylan Rodríguez author of White
Reconstruction 'Accessible rigorous and unequivocal The New Racial Regime is the
principled treatise we sorely need' Charisse Burden-Stelly author of Black Scare Red Scare
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. Alana Lentin is the author
of Why Race Still Matters .
