Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1177/03063968241234538
Colin Prescod
{"title":"Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation By Theo Williams","authors":"Colin Prescod","doi":"10.1177/03063968241234538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241234538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"10 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140420114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968231219164
Tony Collins
{"title":"From black Welsh miner to Marcus Garvey’s nemesis: Lionel Francis and the Black Atlantic","authors":"Tony Collins","doi":"10.1177/03063968231219164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231219164","url":null,"abstract":"This article uncovers the life of Lionel Francis, one of the people who ousted Marcus Garvey from the leadership of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and who would eventually lead the UNIA. Although described by Garvey’s biographers as a medical doctor from Trinidad, this article reveals that Francis was never a doctor but began his working life as a miner and a preacher in the South Wales coalfields, enduring racism and personal struggles before emigrating to the United States following the 1919 racist riots in Wales. There he became a major leader of the interwar Pan-African movement in the United States and was centrally involved in the ousting of Garvey and the fragmentation of the UNIA. During the second world war, Francis moved to Belize and became a populist yet anti-independence politician. His life straddled Trinidad, Wales, the United States, and Belize, reflecting the shifting politics and migratory patterns of the African diaspora, making him an exemplar of the lived reality of the Black Atlantic in the first half of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140451755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968231219166
Jonas Grahn
{"title":"The Johnson-Forest Tendency, radicalising Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma","authors":"Jonas Grahn","doi":"10.1177/03063968231219166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231219166","url":null,"abstract":"One of the studies that influenced US policies on race and integration the most after the second world war is Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma from 1944. At the time of publication, it received much praise from leading intellectuals, including W. E. B. Du Bois and the novelist Richard Wright. In this article, however, the author explores a neglected Marxist critique of Myrdal’s work by Raya Dunayevskaya, who then worked closely with C. L. R. James and Grace Lee Boggs in the Johnson-Forest Tendency (JFT). In addition to criticising Myrdal’s liberal position, the JFT developed a critique of class reductionist Marxists. Hence, this article examines the JFT’s critique of Myrdal’s An American Dilemma as a resource to advance further Marxist debates on the relationship between race and class today.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"26 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140450107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968231219165
Falguni Sheth
{"title":"Dismissal, legibility and the normalising of colonial misrecognition","authors":"Falguni Sheth","doi":"10.1177/03063968231219165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231219165","url":null,"abstract":"The judicial act of dismissal in discrimination cases involving diasporic or minority populations is part of a larger cultural approach to diasporic subjects. Racial dismissal includes judicial as well as larger cultural forms of dismissal, whereby an authority judges a speaker’s grievances as implausible or unworthy of consideration, often due to cases of misrecognition or illegibility to a hegemonic culture or authority. Here the author draws on Kristie Dotson’s notion of epistemic silencing, which illustrates that grievances from diasporic subjects are dismissed because they fall outside settler-colonial norms, and are apprehended as trivial or illegitimate. Hence, dismissal is based on a sustained and protected misrecognition of diasporic populations.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"10 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139958523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-02-11DOI: 10.1177/03063968241228207
Jasbinder S. Nijjar
{"title":"Book Review: Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies By Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor","authors":"Jasbinder S. Nijjar","doi":"10.1177/03063968241228207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241228207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139845587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-02-11DOI: 10.1177/03063968241228207
Jasbinder S. Nijjar
{"title":"Book Review: Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies By Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor","authors":"Jasbinder S. Nijjar","doi":"10.1177/03063968241228207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241228207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"120 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139785741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1177/03063968231212992
Nisha Waller, Naima Sakande
{"title":"Majority jury verdicts in England and Wales: a vestige of white supremacy?","authors":"Nisha Waller, Naima Sakande","doi":"10.1177/03063968231212992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231212992","url":null,"abstract":"In England and Wales, the requirement for a unanimous jury verdict in criminal cases was abolished in 1967, marking a significant departure from a centuries-old legal tradition. Majority verdicts are now common practice, yet no research to date explores the origins of this sudden change to the jury system. In contrast, recent research in the US uncovered a connection between the conception of majority verdicts in Louisiana and Jim Crow era law-making, finding that majority verdicts were strategically introduced to suppress the black juror vote and facilitate quicker convictions to fuel free prison labour. The US Supreme Court later outlawed majority verdicts in a case known as Ramos v. Louisiana, amid recognition of their racist origins . Adopting the critical epistemological position guiding the US research, we consider how race and class underpinned the decision to introduce majority verdicts in England and Wales. Drawing on Home Office files and other archival materials, we find that an increase in eligible jurors from different racial and class backgrounds led to a perceived decline in the ‘calibre’ of jurors – reflective of wider public anxieties about Commonwealth immigration, Black Power and white disenfranchisement. We conclude that a desire to dilute the influence of ‘coloured’ migrants on juries contributed to the introduction of majority verdicts in England and Wales.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"57 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968231223139
Natasha Carver
{"title":"The princess, the witch and the fairy godmother: colonial legacies in ‘FGM’","authors":"Natasha Carver","doi":"10.1177/03063968231223139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231223139","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the discursive construction of what has become known as ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ (FGM) in colonial-era debates in the UK Houses of Parliament. The author shows how, in order to bring the topic into the realm of political legitimacy and to be heard in an institution that had only recently allowed women to stand for office, (White) women MPs emphasised their superiority to the African cultures they were talking about. They fought for inclusion as parliamentarians by re-articulating and aligning themselves with Whitely virtues, positioning themselves as noble, respectable and civilised in contrast to the ‘evil’, ‘abhorrent’ and ‘barbaric’ natives. By delineating the moral distance between themselves and non-White men and women, and by (re)stating female parity as the measure of civilisation, they asserted their own right to full inclusion in the nation-state, using the master’s tools to trouble the master’s house. Ultimately, they gained ground for feminism through the re-articulation of racism. Through historicising and deconstructing the narrative as iterated in the seat of government in colonial times, the author furthers the tentative moves towards decolonising the global campaign against FGM. The article sheds light on the coloniality in the present-day hegemonic narrative of ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ and questions whether there might be less harmful ways to articulate opposition to the practice.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"11 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139524884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.1177/03063968231217397
Jerry Harris
{"title":"Is multi-polarity the new non-alignment?","authors":"Jerry Harris","doi":"10.1177/03063968231217397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231217397","url":null,"abstract":"As multi-polarity grows, there are some who see this as a new stage of non-alignment, and even the creation of an anti-imperialist bloc. But the economic and political elites of the Global South are too deeply tied to transnational capitalism to be truly independent. Instead, multi-polarity is a struggle within global capitalism for a larger share of markets, profits and political power. China has become the main proponent of a new world order based on ‘win-win’ relationships. But a ‘common destiny for mankind’ within global capitalism covers over the fundamental reality of capitalist competition and exploitation.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"118 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139614032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Race & ClassPub Date : 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1177/03063968231209922
Christian Høgsbjerg, Hannah Ishmael
{"title":"The antinomies of Sam Morris: a life in the diaspora","authors":"Christian Høgsbjerg, Hannah Ishmael","doi":"10.1177/03063968231209922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231209922","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to recover the antinomies and contradictions of the life and work of Grenada-born Samson Uriah Morris (1908−1976), an educationalist, anti-colonialist and Black political activist, whose life was dedicated to both the movement for civil rights in Britain and the broader anti-colonial and Pan-Africanist struggle. His life ranged from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom to Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana and then back to Britain where he eventually became the deputy general secretary of the Community Relations Commission and Assistant High Commissioner for Grenada. Despite his role in the anti-racist struggles of the inter-war period he was seen as a somewhat conservative figure by a new generation of Black radicals in Britain by the late 1960s. The authors chart Morris’s biography, setting it against changing political forces, and suggest that he made an important contribution to the struggle against racism and imperialism and the project of ‘intellectual decolonisation’.","PeriodicalId":184842,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":" 61","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139619011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}