**This program is part of a collaboration between Africa World Now Project and the Institute of Race Relations and its journal of Race & Class, based in London, where we engage in transnational dialogue that intentionally disrupts dominant discourses around racial oppression. **These programs are designed to inform the ways we think about the persistent and evolutionary nature of global racial oppression in order to develop an analysis to radically and systematically address it. Sophia Siddiqui in Racing the nation: towards a theory of reproductive racism, examines the “notion of reproduction, both biological and social, in relation to new forms of political and popular racism in Europe wherein the family and breeding to keep the nation white and ‘native’ are now centre stage. Whilst certain women’s reproductive capacities are being incentivised for nationalist ends, this goes alongside a rollback in reproductive rights as well as a series of exclusions aimed at those marked as demographic threats – migrants, Muslims and, increasingly, LGBTQ people. She demonstrates how migrant women, who are vilified as breeders who could threaten the purity of the nation, are essential to maintain the traditional nuclear family under capitalism, through caring for the young and old, but simultaneously denied their rights as workers and mothers.” This intervention provides a “framework to understand how, in different countries and political contexts of Europe, ‘native’ women’s reproductive capacities are being incentivized for nationalist ends and how those same rights (to have children and family life) for minority migrant women are being restricted, whilst the hyper-exploitation of their labour is simultaneously essential to care for the young, sick and elderly of the nation under ‘advanced’ capitalism.” I engage Sophia to explore the relationship with anti-blackness, specifically examining how the historical processes of creating the other are maintained in Europe today through a pattern that situates women now at the nexus of both defining the nation and also maintaining it, whilst excluding those who do not conform.” Sophia Siddiqui is Deputy Editor of Race & Class. As well as assisting the editors and managing the production of Race & Class, Sophia is the coordinator of Institute of Race Relations News. She writes and lectures on anti-racist feminism, both historically and in the present-day. Her most recent publication, the topic of our current engagement is titled, ‘Racing the nation: towards a theory of reproductive racism’.