Education
Recent Publications
January 15, 2013
Race & Class, January 2013
In the January 2013 issue of Race & Class, A. Sivanandan analyses the rise of neoliberalism in the UK, arguing that the market state no longer serves the nation, but transnational capital.
September 13, 2011
Race & Class, October 2011
The October 2011 issue of a special issue, Black History - Black Struggle, examines hitherto neglected areas of black history by unknown black strugglers across the last century.
June 23, 2011
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.
January 11, 2011
Race & Class, January 2011
'Constructions of Palestine', the January 2011 issue of Race & Class, is a special issue.
October 5, 2010
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.
April 28, 2010
Briefing Paper No. 3
The background to the French parliamentary commission on the burqa and niqab examines how André Gerin, the Communist Party mayor of Vénissieux, ignited the debate on the voile intégral in a country where, it is estimated, that a total of 2,000 women wear the burqa. It describes the various arguments used to justify the ban from upholding laïcité to opposing the rise of Salafism and defending the freedom and dignity of women.
October 1, 2009
Chris Searle: the great includer
The October 2009 issue of the journal Race & Class is a festschrift dedicated to radical educationalist Chris Searle on his sixty-fifth birthday.
May 28, 2009
European Race Bulletin no. 67
'Secrecy, detention, torture: the parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen', comprises detailed summaries on the operation of anti-terror laws across Europe and a feature on Islamophobia, academic research and scare scenarios.
November 6, 2008
Struggles for Black Community (Statutory bodies)
Four seminal Black films, made for Channel 4 at the beginning of the 1980s, on Tiger Bay, Leicester, Ladbroke Grove and Southall have been reissued in a new DVD.
November 6, 2008
Struggles for Black Community (Individual & community)
Four seminal Black films, made for Channel 4 at the beginning of the 1980s, on Tiger Bay, Leicester, Ladbroke Grove and Southall have been reissued in a new DVD.
September 11, 2008
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.
March 13, 2007
They Are Children Too: a study of Europe’s deportation policies
Liz Fekete shows how unaccompanied minors, children in families of asylum seekers and those whose parents are without the requisite papers, are being damaged by harsh target-driven deportation systems.
March 1, 2006
HomeBeats: Struggles for Racial Justice (Multi user licence)
HomeBeats is a multimedia journey through time, from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, to the making of modern Britain. The first cd-rom on racism and the black presence in Britain, it fuses music, graphics, video, text and animation into a stunning voyage of personal and historical discovery for every user.
March 1, 2006
HomeBeats: Struggles for Racial Justice (Single user licence)
HomeBeats is a multimedia journey through time, from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, to the making of modern Britain. The first cd-rom on racism and the black presence in Britain, it fuses music, graphics, video, text and animation into a stunning voyage of personal and historical discovery for every user.
July 1, 1995
Ireland: new beginnings?
A special issue of Race & Class on the seeds of change within the North of Ireland.
January 1, 1985
How Racism Came to Britain
The third book in a series that explains how racism came to Britain. It is highly readable, serious – yet entertaining – and is especially suitable for young people. It examines the origins of racism in slavery and colonialism and shows how it affects black people in every aspect of their lives in Britain today – in immigration control, employment, housing, education, policing and law enforcement, and the media.
January 1, 1982
Patterns of Racism
The second book in a series that traces the different ways that racism and colonialism have developed in various parts of the world and how and why they took on particular forms. Bringing the story up to the twentieth century, it covers North America, Australia and New Zealand, Southern Africa, Latin America, the West Indies and India.
January 1, 1982
Roots of Racism
The first book in a series which covers Europe’s early contacts with black people and the factors that fuelled the original drive for conquest. From the initial dominance of the Spanish and Portuguese, it traces the establishment of a worldwide colonial system and how that in turn fed Europe’s economic development – in particular through the industrial revolution.