Catching History on the Wing

Race, Culture and Globalisation

AvA. Sivanandan

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

A. Sivanandan was a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. H was 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. This definitive collection of his work spans over forty years of writing.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 17 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Get Political
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pluto Press
Medarbetare:Prescod,Colin
ISBN:9780745328348

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A. Sivanandan (1928-2018) is regarded as one of the leading Black political thinkers in the UK. He was Director Emeritus of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of the revered journal Race and Class. He is the author of countless classics, including Catching History on the Wing (Pluto, 2008) and A Different Hunger (Pluto, 1991). He contributed the foreword to A Suitable Enemy (Pluto, 2009).

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Colin PrescodIntroduction: Unity of struggleI The personal and the political1. The liberation of the black intellectual2. The hokum of New Times3. La trahison des clercsII State racism and resistance4. Race, class and the state: the political economy of immigration5. From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain6. RAT and the degradation of black struggle7. Race, terror and civil society+ addendumIII Globalisation and displacement8. Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age9. New circuits of imperialism10. A Black perspective on the Gulf war11. Poverty is the new blackBibliography of writings by A. Sivanandan Index