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Catching History on the Wing

By A. Sivanandan

'Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation' is part of Pluto's 21st birthday series 'Get Political', which brings essential political writing by Marx, Lenin, Fanon et al to a new audience.


'Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation' by the IRR's director and editor of Race & Class contains three sections:

The personal and the political
  • The liberation of the black intellectual
  • The hokum of New Times
  • La trahison des clercs
State racism and resistance
  • Race, class and the state: the political economy of immigration
  • From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
  • RAT and the degradation of black struggle
  • Race, terror and civil society
Globalisation and displacement
  • Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age
  • New circuits of imperialism
  • A Black perspective on the Gulf war
  • Poverty is the new black

Also includes a foreword by Colin Prescod and a bibliography of writings by A. Sivanandan.

Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation, can be ordered for a limited time only at a special price of £12 including postage and packing, see link below.

ISBN 9780745328348, price £14.99. 272pp.
The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those of the authors.

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