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 …
Identity
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, …
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 …
Soledad Brother: the prison letters of George Jackson (book review)
Ghetto of the mind Book review published in New Society April 1971 America is insane. An 18 year old robs a petrol station of $70 and ends up in …
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, …
Black Power – The Politics of Liberation (book review)
Black Power-The Politics of Liberation in America. By STOKELY CARMICHAEL and CHARLES V. HAMILTON (London, Jonathan Cape, 1968). xiv+ 198 pp. 30s. Chaos or Community. By MARTIN LUTHER KING (London, …
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. …
Campaign Against Racial Discrimination C.A.R.D
A discussion about the philosophical debates/splits within the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination. Liberalism no longer affords a sinecure. It cannot grow old in office. It must pass on, like adolescence, …