Description
The latest issue of Race & Class focuses on Crime and Punishment.
Twenty years ago, when the Ogoni people, led by Ken Saro-Wiwa, stood up against the depredations of Shell in their homeland, the Nigerian military dictatorship delivered the ultimate punishment – the death penalty. Victoria Brittain examines here in ‘A hero for our times’ (which is accompanied by excerpts from his writings) the enduring legacy of Saro-Wiwa’s supposed heinous crime – to speak out against ecological destruction.
Articles
Editorial by Jenny Bourne
Ken Saro-Wiwa: a hero for our times by Victoria Brittain
Criminalising the Other: challenging the race-gang nexus by Patrick Williams
German policing at the intersection: race, gender, migrant status and mental health by Eddie Bruce-Jones
‘I don’t have a life to live’: deaths and UK detention by Harmit Athwal
The imperialism of race: class, rights and patronage in the Philippine city by Christopher N. Magno and Philip C. Parnell
Commentary
Return to Bosnia by Peter Pelz
Rewiring fascists: behind the cult of Exit by Liz Fekete
The defamation of Joy Gardner: press, police and black deaths in custody by Ryan Erfani-Ghettani
Reviews
Refugees of the Revolution: experiences of Palestinian exile by Diana Allen (Elaine C. Hagopian)
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire by Deepa Kumar (Basuli Deb)
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider by Satnam Virdee (Danny Reilly)
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Race & Class is published quarterly, in January, April, July and October, by Sage Publications for the Institute of Race Relations; individual subscriptions are £34/$63.
