Jas Nijjar

@jasnijjar.bsky.social

Teacher, reader, reluctant writer.

"Trillionaire politics is not simply the concentration of wealth. It is the concentration of power, influence & the capacity to shape the stories societies tell about themselves" -H. Giroux on the culture of greed, cruelty, fascism & masculinity underpinning Musk www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/e...

Elon Musk and the Politics of Trillionaire Fascism

Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its grea...

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My article, The fallacy of an anti-racist police force Argues that the London Race Action Plan reflects a neoliberal move to recast the machinery of structural racism as anti-racist & to create doubt over anti-racism, amid a 'post-race' mythology in crisis www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The fallacy of an anti-racist police force

PDF | This article unpacks the Metropolitan Police's current aim to rebrand itself as an 'anti-racist organisation' via its London Race Action Plan,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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My article, De(-)meaning Anti-Racism De(‐)meaning redefines anti‐racist struggle—inc demands for a free Palestine & scholarship explaining the politics of racism—as racist & hostile, while recasting racialised & militarised state power as anti‐racist & humane www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism

PDF | Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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"Your independence reveals the immeasurable distance between us. Justice, liberty, prosperity .. bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. Sunlight that brought life & healing to you brought stripes & death to me. Fourth of July is yours, not mine" www.democracynow.org/2026/7/3/wha...

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: Frederick Douglass Speech Read by James Earl Jones

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester...

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My new article for Race & Class, 'The fallacy of an anti-racist police force.' Unpacks the police's attempt to reframe itself as an 'anti-racist service,' arguing that the terms and conditions of that move reinforce institutional racism and militarised policing. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The fallacy of an anti-racist police force

PDF | This article unpacks the Metropolitan Police's current aim to rebrand itself as an 'anti-racist organisation' via its London Race Action Plan,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

researchgate.net

My new article, 'De(-)Meaning Anti-Racism', in the British Journal of Sociology. It argues that de(‐)meaning works to redefine anti‐racist struggle as racist and hostile, while recasting racialised and militarised state power as anti‐racist and humane. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism

PDF | Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

researchgate.net

"The engineer, who is of Palestinian heritage, told the Guardian that ... he felt “terrible”, because “you were going in every day and you feel like you are, you’re betraying humanity and your people”". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office

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'This is a must-read for anyone seeking to confront the violent realities of state racism and imagine anti-racist and humane alternatives' - Sarita Malik's generous endorsement of my forthcoming book, The Racial Politics of Police Warfare manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/

Manchester University Press - The racial politics of police warfare

The racial politics of police warfare - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The racial politics of police warfare by Jasbinder S. Nijjar

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