A  JOURNAL  ON  RACISM,  EMPIRE  AND  GLOBALISATION Volume 53 April–June 2012 Number 4

Hemmed in: on the representation of imperial defeat ANDREW SMITH

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Malcolm X at the Oxford Union SALADIN M. AMBAR

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Black longshoremen and the fight for equality in an ‘anti-racist’ union JAKE ALIMAHOMED-WILSON

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Neoliberal disasters and racialisation: the case of post-Katrina Latino labour NICOLE TRUJILLO-PAGAN 54 Commentary

Israel: promised land for Jews … as long as they’re not black? HANAN CHEHATA

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Decolonising the museum: Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration CAROL ANN DIXON

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Imperfectly symmetrical: a discussion of Gilbert Achcar’s The Arabs and the Holocaust RALPH M. COURY 87 Reviews

Listening to Revolt: the selected writings of George Rawick edited by David Roediger with Martin Smith (Jordan T. Camp)

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Fuel on the Fire: oil and politics in occupied Iraq by Greg Muttitt (Saleh Mamon)

On Being Lebanese in Australia: identity, racism and the ethnic field by Paul Tabar, Greg Noble and Scott Poynting (Ray Jureidini)

The State of Islam: culture and cold war politics in Pakistan by Saadia Toor (Snehal Shingavi)

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Books received

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