List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Leila Hassan, Robin Bunce and Paul Field
1. Race Today and British Politics
2. Black Youth in Revolt
3. Sex, Race and Class
4. Asian Communities, Asian Workers and Race Today
I: THE ASIAN SELF DEFENCE MOVEMENT
II: TIGER STRIKES: BHAG AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HOUSING
III ASIAN WORKERS FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
5. Challenging British (In)Justice
6. ‘Creation For Liberation’: Race Today and Culture
7. For Black and Third World Liberation
8. Legacies
Notes on Contributors
Index
Paul Field is a writer, lawyer and political activist. He wrote
extensively for Labour Briefing, on which he also sat on the
Editorial Board, for nearly ten years. Field has also written for
international publications including Jacobin, International
Viewpoint, and South African Labour Bulletin.
Robin Bunce is a Historian based at Cambridge University. He has
written extensively on the history of political thought, and
contemporary pop-culture. His most recent book, published by
Bloomsbury, Renegade: The Life and Times of Darcus Howe,
co-authored with Paul Field, was nominated for the Orwell Politics
Prize.
Leila Hassan was employed by Institute of Race Relations from 1970.
Hassan went on to become a member of the Race Today Collective, the
deputy editor of Race Today from 1973 and editor from 1985, during
which time she was a frequent contributor to the journal on
subjects ranging from black power movement in US, to the struggles
of black women in the UK.
Margaret Peacock spent 25 years as the Head-Teacher of a mixed
inner city comprehensive school. She was closely involved in the
magazine 'Teachers' Action'.
'[I am] grateful for this anthology of the writings of the Race
Today Collective ... It comes from the heart of black British
struggle ... I could have really done with this when I was writing
[my book]'
*Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White
People about Race'*
'Those people inspired me - there was Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi
Johnson, the Race Today Collective, that inspired me...'
*Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet*
'required reading for any black activist of the time...'
*Diane Abbott MP*
'The radical journal Race Today...was hugely influential in black
political movements in the 1970s'
*Kehinde Andrews, author of 'Back to Black: Retelling Black
Radicalism for the 21st Century'*
'a serious black journal that was both politically and
theoretically nuanced'
*Denise Noble, author of 'Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom'*
'A beacon for anyone interested in race in Britain'
*New Socialist*
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