A JOURNAL ON RACISM, EMPIRE AND GLOBALISATION

Volume 50

July–September 2008

Number 1

Editorial

HAZEL WATERS Israel, Europe and the academic boycott

HILARY ROSE and STEVEN ROSE The barbarians of Fallujah

MATT CARR US imperialism after Iraq

JERRY HARRIS Structuring silence: asbestos and biomedical research in Britain and South Africa 59 LUNDY BRAUN Commentary 79

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Language and the seizure of power: an interview with C. L. R. James CHRIS SEARLE 79 The West Indian Gazette: Claudia Jones and the black press in Britain DONALD HINDS 88 Reviews 98

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the regimes of race in American theater and film before World War II by Cedric J. Robinson (Hazel Waters) 98 Hamas: a history from within by Azzam Tamimi (Victoria Brittain) 102 Tim Hector: a Caribbean radical’s story by Paul Buhle (Chris Searle) 106 Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell and In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Barbara Harlow) 108