IRR: Publications

Recent publications

Race & Class, January 2012
The January 2012 issue of Race & Class contains two key articles which address pressing issues.
5 January 2012 (322 words)

Race & Class, October 2011
The October 2011 issue of a special issue, Black Histry - Black Struggle, examines hitherto neglected areas of black history by unknown black strugglers across the last century.
13 September 2011 (537 words)

Briefing Paper no. 5
The IRR publishes today a free briefing a paper from its European Race Audit, Breivik, the conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre.
1 September 2011 (83 words)

Race & Class, July 2011
The July 2011 issue contains four key articles, leading with 'What postcolonial theory doesn't say' by Neil Lazarus in which he exposes the category error at the heart of the postcolonial studies field - a failure to situate colonialism and imperialism and acknowledge the impact of capitalism and uneven development even as the idea of 'the West' is ever dematerialised. He reviews the work of scholars and novelists.
23 June 2011 (452 words)

Race & Class, April 2011
The April 2011 issue of Race & Class leads with a major review article of Guantánamo literature by Barbara Harlow, foregrounding works by Moazzam Begg, Victoria Brittain, Gillian Slovo, Mahvish Rukshana Khan, Anna Perera, Clive Stafford Smith et al and examining what they reveal about the nature, imperatives and relationship to international law of the US state.
11 April 2011 (328 words)

Race & Class, January 2011
'Constructions of Palestine', the January 2011 issue of Race & Class, is a special issue.
11 January 2011 (422 words)

Briefing Paper no. 4
The IRR publishes today a free briefing a paper from its European Race Audit, Accelerated removals: a study of the human cost of EU deportation policies, 2009-2010.
7 October 2010 (70 words)

Race & Class, October 2010
Race & Class, October 2010, leads with an article by Nancy Murray on 'Profiling in the age of total information awareness'. In the US, such awareness linked to racial profiling and implemented by the little accountable Joint-Terrorism Task Forces is especially focused on Muslims, immigrants and prisoners.
5 October 2010 (357 words)

Race & Class, July 2010
The July 2010 edition of the journal Race & Class is a special issue: 'Canada: colonial amnesia and the legacy of empire' guest edited by David Austin, Sean Mills and Scott Rutherford.
6 July 2010 (374 words)

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IRR journals

Race & Class

Race & Class is the IRR's quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation. For more than three decades, it has established a reputation for the breadth of its analysis, its global outlook and its multidisciplinary approach.
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European Race Audit

The European Race Audit is the only comprehensive digest of Europe's changing climate of racism, with reports on asylum and immigration policy, the challenge to multiculturalism and the erosion of civil liberties.
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Free Downloads

Spooked: how not to prevent violent extremism
A report on the government's Prevent programme for tackling extremism finds that it fosters division, mistrust and alienation.
17 October 2009

Driven to desperate measures
A roll call of the 221 asylum seekers and migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK in the past seventeen years. Available as a free download.
21 September 2006

IRR Briefings Papers The following briefing papers are available as free pdf downloads:

IRR educational resources

Free teaching resource based on the IRR Black History Collection
Aimed at teachers and students of Citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4, this free resource consists of five modules: Community and Identity, Community Safety, Media and Racism, Racial Discrimination and Youth and Protest.

Struggles for Black Community DVD
Four seminal films on Black communities in Cardiff, Leicester, Ladbroke Grove and Southall, which were made by Colin Prescod for Channel 4 in the early 1980s, have been reissued on DVD.

HomeBeats: struggles for racial justice
A multimedia journey through time from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to the making of modern Britain.

Roots and patterns: educational resources
A series of four educational booklets covering the historical roots of racism and the fight against it.

Racism in Britain
A simply-written 8-page broadsheet with facts, figures and analysis of contemporary racism.

By A. Sivanandan

A Different Hunger: writings on black resistance
A seminal collection of essays on racism and black resistance from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Communities of Resistance: writings on black struggles for socialism
Powerful interventions on issues which confronted radical politics in the 1980s.

From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
The hitherto unrecorded history of black people in Britain since the Second World War.

When Memory Dies
A three-generational novel of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars.

Where the dance is
A wonderfully varied collection of short stories, which both move and delight, revealing as much about us as about themselves.

Other publications

Newham: the forging of a black community
Situates the growth of Newham's working-class black community in the context of industrial development and decline around London's docks.

Southall: the birth of a black community
How a whole community took to the streets to protest at the invasion of its town by the fascists.

Towards an anti-racist feminism
A pamphlet looking at the parallels between racism and women's oppression and the struggles within feminism to overcome its own racism.

Homelands of the Mind: Jewish feminism and identity politics
How do we hold on to both a Jewish and a feminist identity?

Community care: the black experience
The first study to ask black groups for their experiences and opinions on community care.

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