The Making of the Black Working Class (book review)
The making of the black working class in Britain By RON RAMDIN (Aldershot, Gower, 1987). 626pp. £35.00 Any post-war history of black people in Britain has got to be a …
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Staying Power (book review)
Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain By PETER FRYER (London, Pluto Press, 1984). 632 pp. £9.95 paper If black people insist that no white man or woman …
Hand on the Sun (book review)
By TARIQ MEHMOOD (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983). 156pp. This is the first authentic novel of the Asian experience in Britain – written in the taut, tense style in which that experience …
Paul Robeson Speaks(Review of Philip Foner’s book)
Paul Robeson Speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974 Edited, with introduction and notes, by PHILIP S. FONER (Quartet Books, London 1978). 623pp. £9.50. In a remote village in the north …
Imperial Britain in South-east Asia (Book review)
Imperial Britain in South-east Asia By NICHOLAS TARLING (Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1975). 299pp. Cloth £10 (illustrated) To read this book is really a quite astonishing experience, because here …
James Baldwin (book review)
A review of James Baldwin: a collection of critical essays edited by Kenneth Kinnamon (Prentice-Hall, 1974) We try to forget Baldwin or, rather, we try to remember him as the …
The Sociology of the Damned (book review)
A REVIEW OF RACIAL TENSIONS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY by Ernest Queener Campbell (Venderbilt University Press 1972) It is the function of knowledge not merely to apprehend reality, but to change …
The World and China (book review)
The World and China, 1922-1972 By JOHN GITTINGS (London, Eyre Methuen, 1974). 303pp. £5.25 Nowhere is the suspicion of Chinese ‘opportunism’ so rife as in her foreign policy – and …
Black and Blue (book review)
Book review on Police Power and Black People by Derek Humphry (Penguin 1972) Vic Turner, Bernie Steer and their fellow dockers are having a hard time trying to persuade the …
Blood in my eye by George Jackson (book review)
Published in New Society 4 May 1972 Sower and seed George Jackson, Blood in my Eye. Cape £1.95 If Soledad Brother charted George Jackson’s journey to self-discovery and revolutionary …