Arun Kundnani: What Liberal Anti-racism Gets Wrong About Racial Capitalism
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Arun Kundnani outlines the limits of liberal anti-racism and explains why we need a radical and materialist analysis of capitalism to understand racism. Arun Kundnani has been active in antiracist movements in Britain and the United States for three decades. He is a former editor of the journal Race & Class and was a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He is the author of a number of books including, The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain, The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror and most recently What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism which published with Verso Books last month. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz
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