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An Evening with Reni Eddo-Lodge

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Social Policy

Has society gone 'woke'? Is antiracism being hijacked by the culture wars? And how do we make sense of the racial reckoning of 2020 and the backlash against it? 

‘The debate on racism is a game to some and I don’t want to play.’ – Reni Eddo-Lodge

In June 2020, as the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement reverberated around the world, one book stood out as a way to make sense of the moment. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge became a lightning rod for a national conversation about racial inequality and why we need a better understanding of Black history.  

Eddo-Lodge said her desire for the book was not to give a prescription for what to do next but to provide the tools for people to think critically about racism and challenge it around them. Originally published in 2017 the book has won countless awards and sold over one million copies. Now Eddo-Lodge is back with an updated edition reflecting on events of the past few years. Has society gone ‘woke’? Is antiracism being hijacked by the culture wars? And how do we make sense of the racial reckoning of 2020 and the backlash against it? 

Eddo-Lodge joined us on stage in July 2022 for an evening of insight and understanding.

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An Evening with Reni Eddo-Lodge

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Speakers for the motion

  • Reni Eddo-Lodge

    Award-winning journalist, podcaster and author of Why I'm No Longer Speaking to White People About Race

Chair

  • Gary Younge

    Award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester

Speakers

Speaker

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Award-winning journalist, podcaster and author of Why I'm No Longer Speaking to White People About Race

Award-winning journalist, podcaster and author of Why I'm No Longer Speaking to White People About Race, which has sold over one million copies in the UK. the book won the 2018 Jhalak Prize and the British Book Award for Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year, was chosen as Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year and Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year. It was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Orwell Prize, and shortlisted for a Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-Fiction. Eddo-Lodge has written for the New York Times, the Voice, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Stylist, Inside Housing, Dazed and Confused and the New Humanist.
Chair

Gary Younge

Award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester

Award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. He has written five books including Another Day in the Death of America, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream and Who Are We? How Identity Politics Took Over the World. He has also written for The New York Review of Books. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.