This collection of A. Sivanandan's writings looks at the history of black struggles against British racism from the 1940s to the uprisings of Brixton and Toxteth in the 1980s.
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).
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'Few writers can claim to have approached so clearly the organic connection between analysis and practice, which is the hallmark of the political intellectual'
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Introduction by Stuart Hall1. From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain2. Black Power: The Politics of Existence3. Huey Newton and the Black Renascence4. The Passing of the King5. Jonathan6. Angela Davis7. James Baldwin8. The Colony of the Colonised9. Paul Robeson10. The Liberation of the Black Intellectual11. Race, Class and the State12. Grunwick13. From Immigration Control to ‘Induced Repatriation’14. Imperialism and Disorganic Development in the Silicon Age15. Race, Class and Caste in South Africa
