A  JOURNAL  ON  RACISM,  EMPIRE  AND  GLOBALISATION Volume 53 October–December 2011 Number 2

Black history – Black struggle

Spaghetti House siege: making the rhetoric real JENNY BOURNE

‘Seize the time’: an interview with Stephen Jones AVERY F. GORDON

The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands

Mariner, renegade and castaway: Chris Braithwaite, seamen’s organiser and Pan-Africanist CHRISTIAN HØGSBJERG

Race, politics and US students in 1930s Soviet Russia MEREDITH L. ROMAN

Commentary

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s other novel – Dred on the London stage HAZEL WATERS

Obama and the global war on terror NANCY MURRAY

Reviews

Malcolm X: a life of reinvention by Manning Marable (Yohuru Williams)

Black for a Cause … Not Just Because … by Winston N. Trew (Colin Prescod)

Red, White and Black: cinema and the structure of US antagonisms by Frank B. Wilderson III; African American Actresses: the struggle for visibility 1900–1960 by Charlene Regester (Mary Ellison)

Ricin! The inside story of the terror plot that never was by Lawrence Archer and Fiona Bawdon (Anne Singh)

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