Description
The January 2010 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Tony Bunyan’s analysis of Europe’s shift to a surveillance society; it also includes an examination of military futurism by Matt Carr, an account of the ‘Black Shame’ campaign in interwar Europe, A. Sivanandan on ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka and Shawqi Issa on Palestine.
Articles
Just over the horizon – the surveillance society and the state in the EU by Tony Bunyan
Slouching towards dystopia: the new military futurism by Matt Carr
‘Black Shame’ – the campaign against ‘racial degeneration’ and female degradation in interwar Europe by Iris Wigger
Putting a face on free-market economics: the politicisation of race and ethnicity in Peru by Rebecca L. Lee
Commentary
Ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka by A. Sivanandan
Palestine: notes from the inside by Shawqi Issa
Evidence to the UK parliamentary select committee inquiry on preventing violent extremism by Institute of Race Relations
Reviews
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: immigration, Islam and the West By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL reviewed by Matt Carr
From Fatwa to Jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy By KENAN MALIK reviewed by Arun Kundnani
We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black radical organizations, 1960-1975 By MUHAMMAD AHMAD and Liberated Territory: untold perspectives on the Black Panther Party By YOHURU WILLIAMS and JAMA LAZEROW reviewed by Jordan T. Camp
The Travail of Dieudonné By FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH and Mobile Phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa, edited by MIRJAM DE BRUIJN, FRANCIS NYAMNJOH and INGE BRINKMAN reviewed by Barbara Harlow
Race & Class is published quarterly, in January, April, July and October, by Sage Publications for the Institute of Race Relations; individual subscriptions are £27/$47, for four issues, with an introductory rate of £20/$35 for new subscribers.