Lecture 'Book presentation: what is antiracism? And why it means anticapitalism?'
- For whom
- Alumni , Business , Press , Employees , Private individuals , Students
- When
- 11-02-2026 from 17:30 to 19:00
- Where
- Campus Plateau - Auditorium D, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- CESSMIR, MENARG - Department of Conflict & Development Studies, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting
- Contact
- floor.verhaeghe@ugent.be
- Website
- https://cessmir.be/en/activiteit/book-presentation-what-is-antiracism-and-why-it-means-anticapitalism/
Arun Kundani explores liberal vs radical antiracism, systemic racism, colonialism, capitalism on the basis of his most recent book.
This public lecture will explore the history of two currents within the antiracist movement. The first tradition emerged as a reaction to Nazism. Focusing on individual behavioral changes, it has laid the foundations for today’s liberal anti-racism with its diversity trainings and Hollywood activism. The second more radical tradition - inspired by anticolonial thinkers such as C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones and Frantz Fanon - understands racism as a system embedded within broader economic and political structures, linking it to colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.
In this book presentation, Arun Kundani delves into the questions of what systemic racism actually means; and why antiracism without anticapitalism will always remain superficial?