With his most recent book Not so Black and White (2023) the renowned writer and lecturer Kenan Malik provides clarity on today’s heated debates around race, culture and identity. How should we think about race, and how does the debate relate to class? Malik travels back to the Enlightenment, tracing back the real origins of ‘race’ in Western thought, to challenge current assumptions about identity politics, white privilege and cultural appropriation.
What can Malik’s argument for an anti-racist politics informed by class and solidarity mean for our current polarized political climate?
The Dutch writer and political scientist Kiza Magendane (born in Congo and living in the Netherlands since 2017) will react to Malik’s lecture with a column and will enter into conversation with him.
About Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster and Observer columnist. He has written for The Times, the Guardian, Prospect, and New Statesman, and has made a number of acclaimed TV documentaries. His books include The Quest for a Moral Compass, and From Fatwa to Jihad, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
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