The making of the white working class: race, class and identity in contemporary Britain - Kenan Malik

What is the white working class? Why has it become such a significant concept? And what does it tell us about the way we think about race and class?

Answers involve historical shifts in the relationship between race and class; how white identity has become a means of rebranding racism; and whether those deemed white working class are best served by the label.

About the speaker

Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a columnist for the Observer.

His latest book Not So Black and White challenges much of our understanding of race by retelling the history of the concept.

Previous books include The Quest for a Moral Compass (2014), Multiculturalism and its Discontents (2012) and From Fatwa to Jihad (2009/2017), which explores the social and political impact of the controversy around Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and was shortlisted for the Orwell Book Prize.

He was for many years a presenter of Nightwaves, Radio 3’s flagship arts programme, and a panelist on Radio 4’s The Moral Maze.

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This event has been organised by the Yorkshire and North East committee with Newcastle University Insights team and Geography Department.