On Lived Theory – an interview
Interview with AVERY F. GORDON Avery Gordon: You and the staff took over the Institute of Race Relations in 1972 after a protracted struggle with its Council of Management. First …
On Siva
What’s the point of experience?
Interview with A. Sivanandan and Jenny Bourne, conducted by Alice Nutter, for The Magazine of No Value “I am always guided by a famous thing that Camus said,” explains Sivanandan …
Catching History on the Wing: A. Sivanandan as Activist, Teacher and Rebel
Lou Kushnick and Paul Grant interviewers for Against the Odds:scholars who challenged racism in the 20th century My grandfather was one of the smallest of smallholders in the arid …
Poetry and Polemic by Timothy Brennan (on Sivanandan)
By Timothy Brennan – contribution to ‘A World to Win: essays in honour of A Sivanandan’ (Race & Class Special issue July 1999) When I was in graduate school …
Out of the dust of idols -a tribute by Aijaz Ahmad (on Sivanandan)
By Aijaz Ahmad – contrubution to ‘A World to Win: essays in honour of A. Sivanandan’ (Race & Class July 1999) As long ago as 1976, A. Sivanandan was to …
The colour line is the poverty line
The Colour Line is the Poverty Line Based on an Interview for ‘Hate thy neighbour: the dividing lines of race and culture‘ in the Mindfield Series edited by Susan Greenberg …
Letter to God
This was part of a special Christmas supplement of ‘Letters to God’ commissioned by the New Statesman in 1991. Dear God, I have had trouble with you ever since I …
The heart is where the battle is (interview)
An interview by Quintin Hoare, Malcolm Imrie and Jenny Bourne for the book Communities of Resistance: black struggles for socialism (Verso 1990) How did British politics and culture first …