"Combines scholarship, insight and sympathy for the hopes and problems of the poor and oppressed people throughout the world. It is an achievement as significant as it is rare." - Noam Chomsky
Race & Class is a refereed, ISI-ranked publication, the foremost English language journal on racism and imperialism in the world today. For three decades it has established a reputation for the breadth of its analysis, its global outlook and its multidisciplinary approach.
"One of the few scholarly quarterlies that bridges the gap between the academic and the ghetto." Guardian
Forthcoming in 2008:
·AIDS denialism in Africa
·The living dead of capitalism
·Racial conflict in Malaysia
·Liberal imperialism and the occupation of Egypt
·The integration debate in France
Previous special issues:
·The Caribbean: 200 Years After the Abolition of the Slave Trade
·Black History: the Present in the Past
·Black History: the Present in the Past
·The Politics of Fear: Civil Society and the Security State
·Cedric Robinson and the Philosophy of Black Resistance
·Race, Terror and Civil Society
Recent articles:
Literature and Culture
·David Edgar, ‘Shouting fire’ – on freedom of speech, censorship and the role of the artist in the context of an increasingly repressive legislative regime.
·A. Sivanandan, ‘Freedom of speech is not an absolute’ – a wide-ranging reflection on the issue of free speech in an unequal, globalised world and in the context of the war on terror.
·Jonathan Scott, ‘Langston Hughes – Patternmaster’ – on the great twentieth-century African American writer whose work was revolutionary in all senses of the word, but whose contribution has too often been subtly downgraded in the US academy.
·Arun Balasubramaniam and George Gheverghese Joseph, ‘Indigenous knowledge and science’ – on the differential standards applied to determine what is ‘knowledge’ and what is ‘science’, as between western and non-western societies.
Politics and History
·John Berger, ‘Dispatches’ – a meditation on Palestine and on Marxism; on the Wall and the walls that keep the lives of the rich from the lives of the poor.
·Victoria Brittain, ‘They had to die: assassination against liberation’ – on how, historically, assassination has been targeted as a political weapon against the leaders of Third World liberation movements, and is being used today against the Palestinian movement.
·Matt Carr, ‘You are now entering Eurabia’ – on the increasingly influential Islamophobic discourse that asserts that a doomed and decadent Europe is coming under the thrall of Islam and that is beginning to shape aspects of European politics.
·Liz Fekete, ‘Enlightened fundamentalism? Immigration, feminism and the Right’ – on the unholy alliance between some strands of western European feminism, mainstream political parties and the xenophobic far Right over policy towards both settled Muslim communities and Muslim migrants.
·Avery Gordon, ‘Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror’ – on the terrifying model of US ‘supermax’ imprisonment and its generalisation across the board, demonstrating the parallels between the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on crime’.
·Jenny Bourne, ‘Labour’s Love Lost’ – an extended review of the Young Foundation’s book The New East End which justifies racism as a legitimate consequence of white working-class grievances over welfare going to ‘immigrant’ newcomers.
·Anandi Ramamurthy, ‘Political identities and the Asian Youth Movements’ – on the history and development of political organisation amongst Asian youth in Britain.
·John Newsinger, ‘Liberal imperialism and the occupation of Egypt’ – on the lessons to be learnt about British and US imperialism today from the 1882 invasion of Egypt, undertaken to remove a military despot.
·Scott Poynting, ‘What caused the Cronulla riot?’ – on the recent Australian riots and racial violence directed against men of ‘Middle Eastern appearance’.
·Giorgios Antonopoulos, ‘Racist violence and the Greek police’ – on the impact of the debate over immigration to Greece and the growth of racial violence there.
·Nic Mclellan, ‘Fiji, the Iraq war and the security industry’ – on the recruitment and use of Fijian military personnel (who would otherwise face unemployment) to man the private security services in Iraq, and the impact of this on Pacific Island societies.
·Terence Wesley-Smith, ‘The limits of self-determination: state, sovereignty and crisis in Oceania’ – on concepts and definitions of sovereignty and nationhood as applied to Pacific Island societies, and their relation to anti-colonialism.
Included in "Journals of the Century" (The Haworth Information Press, 2002)
Impact Factor*: 0.750
Ranking:
30/67 in Anthropology
6/10 in Ethnic Studies
17/35 in Social Issues
29/68 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
61/114 in Sociology
* Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters, released June 2010
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