'While [other books] have made essential contributions to discourses around race in this country, Towards a Grammar of Race feels different. It feels like a living movement bursting with hope — one that began with a group of three friends, grew into a collective of 18 authors and now has the potential to extend across Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond.' – Dylan Asafo, Metro Magazine
'Towards a Grammar of Race shows the collective power of a new generation of activists, academics and practitioners to develop an anti-oppressive, anti-racist manifesto for change. This is a rich body of work, alive to the contradictions of our time and inherent in our language.' – Tracey McIntosh (Ngāi Tūhoe)
'I’m excited that a book like Towards a Grammar of Race is being published in Aotearoa. The depth and range of analysis from the writers is a real strength. I’m hopeful that this book will make an important contribution to much-needed conversations on race in this country.' – Brannavan Gnanalingam
'This book is an incredibly hopeful and timely volume that opens up the possibility of genuinely constructive conversations, alongside transformative local actions and the emancipatory possibilities of transnational solidarity.' – Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi, Te Whakatōhea, Te Arawa), Kaituhi, Kaihoahoa, Kaihāpai
'This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the pursuit of equity and justice in Aotearoa New Zealand. By capturing a rich range of experiences, Towards a Grammar of Race opens up our minds to opportunities for solidarity that are too often missed in our tense conversations around race today.' – Dylan Asafo
'Towards a Grammar of Race is timely and powerful mahi. The book opened my eyes to some different and invigorating ways of thinking about race in this country. By locating Aotearoa within international networks of race and power it provides important new insights.' – Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata)
'Taken together as a collection, Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand... is a fascinating compendium of responses to the agenda of colonialisation in this country, as framed by the concepts of critical race theory, latterly brought to prominence by the... This very readable book honours the promise it makes ‘to present ways to think about racism and what that might be’ at this present moment in the nation’s narrative.' – David Eggleton, Landfall Tauraka Review
'A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers, and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. The result is a country where racism is all too often left unnamed and unchecked, voices are erased, the colonial past ignored and silence passes for understanding.' – Ed Amon, New Books Network
'The authors of [this book] on conversations around racism in New Zealand are hoping it helps to promote a better understanding of people's differences and appreciation for diversity.' – Lana Lopesi, RNZ Pacific Waves
'A new collection of essays [that] discusses the different ways we talk about racism and race in Aotearoa. It examines our understanding of ethnicity and culture, alongside colourism and race — and how we often confuse what these are. It also places Aotearoa’s history of colonisation in a global framework, pointing to the importance of that context in our own framing of racism.' – E-Tangata
'This project [seeks] to bring together different authors, understandings, ideas, and experiences of race together... confronting a lack of societal consensus or shared language to even discuss race by putting these diverse positions together in what [the authors] call, "towards a grammar of race".' – Wai Podcast
Read 'Book extract: Towards a Grammar of Race - 'the erasive racial politics of Judith Collins'' in Canvas Magazine
Read 'Diving deep into the complicated issue of race and how to talk about it' in Stuff
Read 'When are you White and when are you Black?' by Tze Ming Mok in The Spinoff
