Tribute to Jan Carew
Once in a while, a man or a woman comes along who epitomises the best of the worst of times – and shines out like a beacon to signal us …
Blackness
Fighting our fundamentalisms
Fighting our fundamentalisms: an interview with A. Sivanandan At a time when people are becoming entrenched in their particularistic politics, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism ( CA RF) asked …
Towards a black librarianship
Talk to African-Caribbean Library Association July 1987 My librarianship is a little bit rusty. Or rather it is the craft of my trade that has got rusty. I am no …
Racism in the Arts in Britain: struggle for Black Arts
First published in Race & Class 28/1, Summer 1986 and including a speech at the Africa Centre given 8 May 1986 During the last year the field of Black Arts …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Soul on Ice (book review)
Soul on Ice. By ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (London, Jonathan Cape, 1969). xv + 210 pp. 35s. Life is a renewal, an assertion, a continual yea-saying. It holds out no new truths, …
A farewell to liberalism
Published in the IRR Newsletter 22 March 1969 Michael Young expresses the liberal creed quite succinctly when, in commenting on the Report of the Kerner Commission[1], he refers to liberalism …
Home: social essays (book review)
Home: social essays by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) It was ’endless questioning’ Baldwin tells us that ’gave him himself’- and himself, he ultimately found, was American, no narrower than that. …