A    JOURNAL    ON    RACISM,    EMPIRE    AND    GLOBALISATION Volume 52 October–December 2010 Number 2

Basil Davidson: Soldier in the People’s Army, 1914–2010 A. SIVANANDAN

Profiling in the age of total information awareness NANCY MURRAY

Brick Lane: a materialist reading of the novel and its reception REHANA AHMED

Nepalese Gurkhas and their battle for equal rights CHÉ SINGH KOCHHAR-GEORGE

Going green to stay in the black: transnational capitalism and renewable energy JERRY HARRIS

Commentary

Africa: Dead Aid and the return of neoliberalism JOHN HILARY

UK: the veil and the politics of racism MILLY WILLIAMSON and GHOLAM KHIABANY

UK: the reality behind the ‘knife crime’ debate REBECCA WOOD

Reviews

Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora: the ‘abortion trail’ and the making of a London-Irish underground, 1980–2000 by Ann Rossiter (Robbie McVeigh)

Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities: issues for policy and practice edited by Aisha Gill and Ravi K. Thiara (Jane Sendall and Nicole Westmarland)

Smile or die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world by Barbara Ehrenreich (Rebecca Wood)

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