Kenan Malik was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010.
22 Facts About Kenan Malik
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Kenan Malik was born in Secunderabad, Telangana, India and brought up in Manchester, England.
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Kenan Malik studied neurobiology at the University of Sussex and History of Science at Imperial College, London.
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Kenan Malik is currently Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey.
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Kenan Malik has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Financial Times, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, New Statesman, The New York Times, Prospect, TLS, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Nature, Rising East, Goteborgs-Posten, Bergens Tidende and Handelsblatt.
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Kenan Malik is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Kenan Malik is a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK and a trustee of the free-speech magazine Index on Censorship.
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Kenan Malik has long campaigned for equal rights, freedom of expression, and a secular society, and in defence of rationalism and humanism in the face of what he has called "a growing culture of irrationalism, mysticism and misanthropy".
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Kenan Malik was the Red Front candidate in Nottingham East in the 1987 general election.
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Kenan Malik stood as the RCP's candidate in Birmingham Selly Oak in the general election in 1992, coming last out of six candidates with 84 votes.
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Kenan Malik was involved with anti-racist campaigns, including the Anti-Nazi League and East London Workers Against Racism.
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Kenan Malik helped organise street patrols in East London to protect Asian families against racist attacks and was a leading member of a number of campaigns against deportations and police brutality including the Newham 7 campaign, the Afia Begum Campaign Against Deportations, and the Colin Roach Campaign.
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Kenan Malik has written that the turning point in his relationship with the left came with the Salman Rushdie affair.
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Kenan Malik was one of the first left-wing critics of multiculturalism, has controversially opposed restrictions on hate speech, supported open door policies on immigration, opposed the notion of animal rights in a series of debates with Peter Singer and Richard Ryder, and spoken out in defence of animal experimentation.
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Kenan Malik wrote for the RCP's magazine Living Marxism, later LM.
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Kenan Malik has written of his perception that use of white privilege narratives can further entrench white identity by marginalising white British working classes.
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Kenan Malik sees this tendency in anthropology as another expression, along with the idea of race, of "a particularist, relativist, and anti-humanist philosophy" that has rejected Enlightenment universalism.
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Kenan Malik argues that the scientific study of human nature has been distorted by post-war cultural pessimism.
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All this has both encouraged and been reinforced by what Kenan Malik sees as mechanistic accounts of human nature.
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Kenan Malik argues that racial scientists should be allowed to express their views publicly and be critiqued in the public domain, while criticising censorship from traditional anti-racist organisations.
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Kenan Malik concludes that 'race' is not a biological concept and is useless as a way to separate people and he says that it is not just ignorant racial scientists that perpetuate this myth, it is anti-racists too.
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Kenan Malik explores the life of immigration from the Indian subcontinent to Britain and how that has shaped modern British-Asian identity.