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Kenan Malik

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Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 5h

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Sunday photo

Carcass. The skeletal remains of a half-buried boat at Talmine, the Kyle of Tongue, Sutherland

Photo of a half-buried boat at Talmine, north of Scotland

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 13h

And next Sunday, I’m off to Sheffield ‪@otsfestival.bsky.social‬ in conversation with the wonderful Sunjeev Sahota, talking about race, class and history offtheshelf.org.uk/events/not-s...

Kenan Malik Photo credit Tom Trevatt Photography

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 13h

“Hidden here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging... It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working class people by middle-class gatekeepers who define what is ‘relevant’.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, they would. And I tackle that issue at length in my book *Not So Black and White* kenanmalik.com/2022/04/13/n...

NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE

. Here are details of my new book, Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics, bublished by Hurst and available from the usual places. In Britain: Bookshop,…

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 7d

Sunday photo

Bird flies into a Rothko
(taken on the Adriatic coast near Dubrovnik)

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 7d

On the dangers of the critique of liberalism descending into illiberalism: My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali...

If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 10d

A terrible, truly sickening act
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Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed killed - police

The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

Funny how suddenly so many on the right now see hurty words as a problem, and how suddenly expansive their notion of incitement has become.