Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation (Get Political)

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 SivanandanвЂTMs 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. CONTENTS......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 7 FOREWORD by Colin Prescod......Page 8 INTRODUCTION: UNITY OF STRUGGLE......Page 14 PART I: THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL......Page 22 1. THE LIBERATION OF THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL......Page 24 2. THE HOKUM OF NEW TIMES......Page 40 3. LA TRAHISON DES CLERCS......Page 76 PART II: STATE RACISM AND RESISTANCE......Page 84 4. RACE, CLASS AND THE STATE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMMIGRATION......Page 86 5. FROM RESISTANCE TO REBELLION: ASIAN AND AFRO-CARIBBEAN STRUGGLES IN BRITAIN......Page 111 6. RAT AND THE DEGRADATION OF BLACK STRUGGLE......Page 161 7. RACE, TERROR AND CIVIL SOCIETY......Page 188 PART III: GLOBALISATION AND DISPLACEMENT......Page 198 8. IMPERIALISM AND DISORGANIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE SILICON AGE......Page 200 9. NEW CIRCUITS OF IMPERIALISM......Page 214 10. A BLACK PERSPECTIVE ON THE GULF WAR......Page 236 11. POVERTY IS THE NEW BLACK......Page 243 NOTES......Page 250 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS BY A. SIVANANDAN......Page 265 INDEX......Page 276

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.

"A. Sivanandan is an 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."--Jacket