In both of your books, you really focus as much on the constract of whiteness as much as blackness. And i guess it's important to understand the origins of racialized king in order to imagine a different way forward. Could you share a little bit about how you think this kind of awareness can help us move the conversation on? Yes, completely. If we can understand that race was invented in order to create and a kind of justify racism and its relatively recent and modern invention, then that kind of frees us up to know that there is a natives.
For this edition of Intelligence Squared, we join Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, for her podcast How to Lead a Sustainable Business, in which she speaks to thought leaders who are reinventing their sectors for a sustainable and just future.
In this week’s special episode, Alannah and her guest explore the possibility of rethinking race.
Emma Dabiri is an academic, broadcaster and author of two highly acclaimed books on the subject: Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition. She discusses why ideas about race are cultural constructs and how understanding that race was invented to create and justify more racism could help us bring about an end to racial discrimination.
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