Kenan Malik

Kenan Malik is a sometime academic and now writer and is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network. He stood as an RCP candidate in the 1987 and 1992 general elections (1992 in birmingham Selly Oak, coming sixth and last with 84 votes and 0.2% of the vote), was active in Workers Against Racism in the mid 1980s, has written for Living Marxism and Spiked , spoken at Spiked events, the Battle of Ideas and the Brighton Salon and Leeds Salon. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London).

Publications

Books

• The Meaning of Race: Race, History and Culture in Western Society (Palgrave / New York University Press, 1996);
• Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000 / Rutgers University Press, 2002),
• Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate (Oneworld, 2008)
• From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy (Atlantic, 2009 / Melville House 2010).

Resources

• Arun Kundnani REVIEW Kenan Malik: journey of an ex-anti-racist Institute of Race Relations, 1 June 2009, 3:00pm Also published in Race and Class, January 2010 vol. 51 no. 3 87-90.

Press articles

• Asians denounce media myth of the corner shop ; One in five driven to seek self-employment

The Independent (London), June 12, 1994, Sunday, BRITAIN PAGE; Page 9 ,

• BOOK REVIEW / In the imperial sunset: arms for the poor; 'Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism' - Frank Furedi: I B Tauris, 34.50 pounds The Independent (London), June 8, 1994, Wednesday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 16.
• A Britain still at war with Germany The Independent (London), June 6, 1994, Monday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 15
• The real racists do not wear swastikas; 'Stop the BNP' campaigns ignore greater dangers in everyday British life, argues Kenan Malik The Independent (London), May 4, 1994, Wednesday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 16
• The second age of unreason; Tom Paine's great polemic has startling resonance 200 years on, says Kenan Malik The Independent (London), January 27, 1994, Thursday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 22
• Saying 'yuk' is so much easier than facing facts The Independent (London), January 12, 1994, Wednesday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 17.
• Not in front of the masses, please The Independent (London), December 8, 1993, Wednesday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 17 , 617 words, KENAN MALIK
• New racism finds a Yardie stick; The idea of a black and white yobbo 'underclass' is dangerous, warns Kenan Malik The Independent (London), November 3, 1993, Wednesday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 18 , 898 words, KENAN MALIK
• Making sense of Millwall's vote; There is a cold logic to the Isle of Dogs election result, argues Kenan Malik The Independent (London), September 23, 1993, Thursday, COMMENT PAGE; Page 34
• Somalia's tragedy is our blindness ; The Third World is what we make it, argues Kenan Malik The Independent (London) July 25, 1993, Sunday SECTION: COMMENT PAGE; Page 22
• The West knows best - and don't forget it The Independent (London) June 17, 1993, Thursday SECTION: COMMENT PAGE; Page 26
• LETTER: THE WAY TO REVERSE TODAY'S RACIST TREND The Guardian (London) May 18, 1993 SECTION: THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 19
• Are they more racist than us? The Independent (London) November 29, 1992, Sunday SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE; Page 24
• LETTER: GENUINE OR BOGUS: GOVERNMENT RULES ON REFUGEES The Guardian (London) November 21, 1992, SECTION: THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 28

Contact

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