Catching History On The Wing: Race, Culture And Globalisation

A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalization and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of "Race & Class," which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing for over forty years and this is the definitive collection of his work.

The articles selected span his entire career and are chosen for their relevance to today's most pressing issues. Included is a complete bibliography of Sivanandan's writings, and a foreword by Colin Prescod (chair of the IRR), which sets the writings in context.

This book is highly relevant to politics and sociology students and anyone reading or writing on race, ethnicity, and immigration.

Ambalavaner Sivanandan has been director of the Institute of Race Relations and editor of its journal Race & Class for over 35 years. From the 1960s, Sivanandan has written on race issues for the "Guardian, New Statesman" and "New Society," and also many articles for IRR's publications. His novel, "When Memory Dies," won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (First Novel Eurasia) and the Sagittarius Prize.