Words, words, words

In this essay, Christina Heatherton asks how racist conditions have persisted despite the proliferation of liberal antiracist language in the twenty-first century. Drawing on Arun Kundnani's book, she describes how racist conditions have multiplied just as antiracist organizers have been robbed of the very language to describe them. She considers how the book intervenes against impasses in critical theory. She also describes how Kundnani's work speaks to a currently evolving period of political struggle.