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Lentin, A. (2025). The New Racial Regime. Recalibrations of White Supremacy. London: Pluto Press.

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Abstract

In the scholarly legacies of Stuart Hall and Cedric J. Robinson, Alana Lentin’s The New Racial Regime poses as both a continuation as well as a complication. It begs the question of how in contemporary times, race still operates as a central mechanism for organizing the materials and the structural relations between groups and people who are constituted as wholly different from one another (Lentin, 2025, p. 2). Race, Lentin insists again in her latest books, is not a fact of bodies, but a technology of governance, historically contingent and contextually specific: a way of assigning value, of marking who matters, of distributing the conditions of life and death across populations. Though not entirely new in its theoretical contributions, The New Racial Regime offers an intensification, illuminating how the notion of race changes over time: ‘Race, despite being imbued with the character of fixity, is anything but; it is unstable, adaptive, and recursive.’ (Lentin, 2025, p. 18).

How to Cite:

Öztürk, A., (2026) “Lentin, A. (2025). The New Racial Regime. Recalibrations of White Supremacy. London: Pluto Press.”, DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies 13(1), 143–145. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/digest.101166