Sri Lanka: Racism and the politics of underdevelopment
Published in Race & Class 21/1, Summer 1984 There have been no race riots in Sri Lanka since independence. What there has been is a series of increasingly virulent pogroms …
Type: Key Work
From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
First published in ‘Rebellion and repression’, a special issue of Race & Class, 23/2&3, Autumn 1981 On 25 June 1940 Udham Singh was hanged. At a meeting of the Royal …
Cheerleaders and ombudsmen: the sociology of race relations in Britain (with Jenny Bourne)
Written with Jenny Bourne, published in Race & Class, 21/4, Spring 1980. There is a dangerous sociology abroad – a sociology of race relations, that is – and dangerous …
Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age
*This is a development and reformulation of a paper originally given at the Three Worlds or One Conference, Berlin, June 1979. Published first in Race & Class, 21/2, Autumn 1979. …
The Liberation of the Black Intellectual [Alien Gods]
Written in 1972, originally published as ‘Alien Gods’ in ed. Bhikhu Parekh, Colour, cultures and consciousness: immigrant intellectuals in Britain (Allen and Unwin, 1974), reprinted in Race & Class, …
Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain
Published in Race & Class 17/4, Spring 1976. Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain For Wesley Dick — poet and prisoner In some answer to his …
Race, Class and Power: an outline for study
Published in RACE 14/4, July 1973, encorporating ‘Anatomy of racism:the British variant’ in Race Today, July 1972. NOTES TOWARDS A DEFINITION Racism, in the sense of an explicit and …