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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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