Catching History on the Wing Race, Culture and Globalisation

by Sivanandan, A.

• ISBN13: 9780745328355
• ISBN10: 0745328350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-20
• Publisher: UCP

Summary

Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing for over forty years and this is the definitive collection of his work. The articles selected span his entire career and are chosen for their relevance to today's most pressing issues. Included is a complete bibliography of Sivanandan's writings, and an introduction by Colin Prescod (chair of the IRR), which sets the writings in context. This book is highly relevant to undergraduate politics students and anyone reading or writing on race, ethnicity and immigration.

Author Biography

Ambalavaner Sivanandan has been director of the Institute of Race Relations and editor of its journal Race & Class for over 35 years. From the 1960s, Sivanandan has written on race issues for the Guardian, the New Statesman and New Society, and also many articles for IRR's publications. His novel, When Memory Dies (1997) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (First Novel Eurasia) and the Sagittarius Prize.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Unity of struggle
The Personal and the Political	p. 1
The liberation of the black intellectual	p. 3
The hokum of New Times	p. 19
La trahison des clercs	p. 55
State Racism and Resistance	p. 63
Race, class and the state: the political economy of immigration	p. 65
From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain	p. 90
RAT and the degradation of black struggle	p. 140
Race, terror and civil society	p. 167
Globalisation and Displacement	p. 177
Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age	p. 179
New circuits of imperialism	p. 193
A black perspective on the Gulf war	p. 215
Poverty is the new black	p. 222
Notes	p. 229
Bibliography of writings by A. Siuanandan	p. 244
Index	p. 255
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