Publications

Recent publications

Race & Class, July 2009
The July 2009 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston's exploration of the long history of the 'civilising process' in Ireland; it also includes two pieces on Palestine: a poem by A. Sivanandan and a discussion of the boycott campaign by Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban.
1 July 2009 (235 words)

Secrecy, detention, torture: the parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen
The Spring issue of the European Race Bulletin comprises detailed summaries on the operation of anti-terror laws across Europe and a feature on Islamophobia, academic research and scare scenarios.
28 May 2009 (41 words)

Race & Class, April 2009
The April 2009 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Jerry Harris and Carl Davidson's charting of the new contours of power in Obama's America, and features a series of articles on asylum and multiculturalism in Sweden.
1 April 2009 (255 words)

European Race Bulletin no. 66 - Europe's shame - A report on 105 deaths
The Winter 2009 issue of the European Race Bulletin comprises a report of our research into deaths in the EU in 2007 and 2008 due to either racism or government migration and asylum policies.
12 March 2009 (50 words)

A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe
At the heart of this book is an examination of xeno-racism - a non-colour coded form of institutionalised racism - where migrants who do not assimilate, or who are believed to be incapable of assimilation, are excluded.
12 March 2009 (517 words)

Race & Class, January 2009
The January 2009 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Victoria Brittain's powerful exposé of the rounding up, imprisonment without trial and indefinite house arrest of a number of Muslim men resident in the UK.
5 January 2009 (287 words)

European Race Bulletin no. 65 - Grinding down the human rights defenders'
The Autumn 2008 issue of the IRR's European Race Bulletin examines the resistance and the criminalisation of solidarity and protest, also contains an article on the the Austrian general election and the death of Jörg Haider.
20 November 2008 (50 words)

Race & Class, October 2008
The October 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with a reprint of A. Sivanandan's 1974 account of the radical transformation of the IRR and includes Arun Kundnani's examination of 'Islamism and the roots of liberal rage'.
1 October 2008 (141 words)

Catching History on the Wing
'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.
11 September 2008 (203 words)

European Race Bulletin no. 64 - the Italian general election and its aftermath
The Summer 2008 issue of the Institute of Race Relations' European Race Bulletin examines the Italian general election and its aftermath, plus an artilce on a death in police custody in France by Virginia MacFadyen.
7 August 2008 (50 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 Bulletin

The European Race Bulletin 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

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

The following briefing papers are available as free pdf downloads:

• Working with the media (192kb)
• In defence of multiculturalism (72kb)
• Community responses to the 'war on terror' (88kb)
• Asylum deaths; what to do next (232kb)

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.