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 …
Decade: 1970
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 …
A New RACE
This editorial in the July 1974 issue of RACE – the precursor of Race & Class sets out what the journal’s principles and politics should be. To look at …
Put Politics in Command
Editorial in Race Today, August 1973 Britain, as George Lamming once remarked, is a blotting paper society. It absorbs and dissipates discontent, dissidence, revolt; it even puts them to profit. …
Justice For Whom?
GRASSROOTS is a black journal – which means that, in a society in which the black voice has been stifled, it articulates the aspirations, the fears, the hopes and despair …
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 …
Race, Class and Power: an outline for study
Published in RACE 14/4, July 1973, encorporating ‘Anatomy of racism:the British variant’ in Race Today, July 1972. NOTES TOWARDS A DEFINITION Racism, in the sense of an explicit 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 …