Kenan Malik

Kenan Malik (@kenanmalik) / X

Abstract

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 of 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.
 
Biography

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.