Race, Coloniality and the Academy

Reviews / Votes

"This book offers a provocative and insightful exploration of race, identity, and power, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the complexities of these issues in contemporary society." Chantelle Lewis, University of Oxford and Surviving Society Productions "Brave, nuanced and unrelenting, Alam is at his best here. Combining his earlier achievements in writing fiction that animated a unique ethnic minority position, here Alam brings together a serious concern with the enduring power of racialized thinking and work that structure the space of EDI in the Academy." Ajmal Hussain, University of Warwick "This is compulsory reading for those who wish to comprehend the influence that the lingering vestiges of coloniality exerts on the Academy. Alam offers a sumptuous critique, conveyed with inimitable, authentic elegance, that exposes the failings and performativity of the EDI agenda in higher education. Moreover, the urgent need for decoloniality as a means to rectify the marginality of British Muslims in UK society is expertly put." Zain Sardar, Aziz Foundation





"Brave, nuanced and unrelenting, Alam is at his best here. Combining his earlier achievements in writing fiction that animated a unique ethnic minority position, here Alam brings together a serious concern with the enduring power of racialised thinking and working that structure the space of EDI in the academy." Ajmal Hussain, University of Warwick