Alana Lentin: The New Racial Regime no alteration Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha’s

Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha’s use of vernacular signage and motifs

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which interrelate art and life in a way that imbues these projects with crucial relevance

Alana Lentin: The New Racial Regime no alteration Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha’sPluto Press, 2025, softcover, 304 pages, 14 x 21. 59 cm In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley, anti wokeness is the perfect example of the functioning of the racial regime. Taking the reader beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and moral panics, Alana Lentin shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured. The often chaotic and