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Authors:Stephen R. Millar Pages: 9 - 34 Abstract: Race & Class, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 9-34, April-June 2022. From the Shankill Defence Association’s Orange-Loyalist Songbook to the UDA’s appropriation of ‘Simply the Best’, music has long been used to celebrate loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, loyalist songs served a variety of functions, from community fundraising and entertainment to the transmission of loyalist cultural memory and the articulation of political perspectives ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, in addition to celebrating local practices and political traditions, loyalist songs now feed into a broader ‘culture war’ in Northern Ireland where, in the absence of intercommunal violence, the commemoration of paramilitary groups is used to continue the conflict by other means. This article traces the origins of contemporary loyalism’s culture war against Irish republicans, unravelling the role loyalist songs played during the Troubles and their ongoing legacy. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-04-08T07:16:16Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221079247 Issue No:Vol. 63, No. 4 (2022)
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Authors:Leah Bassel Pages: 35 - 55 Abstract: Race & Class, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 35-55, April-June 2022. This article explores the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) hearing, ‘The hostile environment on trial’, which took place in London in 2018. When calling a gathering a ‘people’s tribunal’, certain kinds of listening and attention become possible, which are shaped by specific histories and contexts. The author considers the kinds of listening that took place during the London PPT and what changed as a result. She argues that the legal framing that comes with calling a gathering a ‘tribunal’ both compels and excludes, and the politics of listening for migrant justice within such a space is laden with imperial pitfalls and power relations that must continuously be worked through. Instead of a legal remedy, what results is a social relation – an ‘Us’ created through the mutual effort of organising and participating in the tribunal that can open up different understandings of migrant justice and its connection to wider struggles. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-04-08T07:16:16Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221081417 Issue No:Vol. 63, No. 4 (2022)
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Authors:Frances Webber Pages: 56 - 80 Abstract: Race & Class, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 56-80, April-June 2022. In this article, the author provides a roundup of the UK Conservative government’s legislative programme in 2021, arguing that, in the service of an authoritarian agenda, it uses law to undermine the rule of law and executive accountability, and to criminalise marginalised and/or racialised groups, including asylum seekers and those helping them, black youth, protesters and human rights defenders, and Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. Through an analysis of various new bills that attack human and civil rights, including the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the Nationality and Borders Bill, the Overseas Operations Act, the Elections Bill and the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, she demonstrates the cumulative impact of the legislative programme that has entrenched the demonisation of minorities and human rights defenders, whilst giving unprecedented powers to police, hobbling the courts, nobbling other regulators and blocking effective legal, political and public accountability for ministers. The result, she argues, is an erosion of human rights and the entrenchment of impunity for the government and its agencies. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-04-08T07:16:15Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221083193 Issue No:Vol. 63, No. 4 (2022)
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Authors:Liz Fekete Pages: 101 - 106 Abstract: Race & Class, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 101-106, April-June 2022. In an extended version of a presentation on 3 February 2022 to the Stuart Hall Foundation’s fifth Annual Conversation on ‘Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity’, the director of the Institute of Race Relations asks whether a refreshed anti-fascism, that tackles the global war against the poor, New Right ‘culture wars’, ‘total policing’ and the surveillance state, can act as an inspiration for diffuse struggles to come together into communities of resistance. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-04-08T07:16:52Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221083191 Issue No:Vol. 63, No. 4 (2022)
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Authors:Christopher S. Taylor Pages: 107 - 117 Abstract: Race & Class, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 107-117, April-June 2022. In this polemical commentary on Canada, the author argues for the recognition of the crucial role played by West Indian, particularly Barbadian, women – Emigrant Ambassadors − of the 1950s and ’60s who fought in Canada against their supposed subordination in the West Indian Domestic Scheme so as to establish Black women at the forefront of a liberatory struggle and create the conditions on which the present Black Lives Matter Millennials can now build. Using the examples of Jean Augustine (first Black member of Parliament) and Mia Mottley (Barbados’ prime minister), who fought the ordained de-skilling and downward mobility of the neocolonial economic arrangements, he asks that we view them not as individual achievers justifying a neoliberal meritocracy but rather as part and parcel of Black liberatory politics, stretching from slave rebellions to the Black Power movements and fights against racism of the mid-twentieth century. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-04-08T07:16:16Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221083801 Issue No:Vol. 63, No. 4 (2022)
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Authors:Miguel N. Abad Pages: 121 - 124 Abstract: Race & Class, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 121-124, April-June 2022.
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Authors:Jerry Harris Abstract: Race & Class, Ahead of Print. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a powerful assertion of geopolitical power and conflict. But Russia’s nationalist and expansionary drive takes place within the context of transnational economic ties. Such ties help define the nature of the war, and both the Russian and western response. The contradictory pressures of nationalist desires conflicting with transnational integration is an underappreciated complexity of the war that this article will explore. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-06-20T06:05:03Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221105740
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Authors:Andrew Brooks, Astrid Lorange Abstract: Race & Class, Ahead of Print. This article argues that property law can be understood as a key infrastructure of settler-colonial sovereignty. Rather than a simple importation of British law, the frontier mentality of the colonial outpost allowed for the implementation of a new legal framework for the allocation and registration of land. Taking the example of Torrens Title allows for an analysis of the ‘structures of feeling’ that are generated by, and that naturalise in turn, the possessive claim to property. We consider how the history of property as fungible commodity is entangled with the history of racialisation, and how Torrens Title shows the material and affective dimensions of settler law and of the long struggle to resist its illegal claim to sovereignty. We analyse the 2018 video essay Drawing Rights by Rachel O’Reilly, considering the troubled relationship between white possession and the unbroken sovereignty it denies, yet which remains a constant threat to the settler state. Her work articulates what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls ‘infrastructures of feeling’, which, we argue, describes the way anti-colonial consciousness can materialise against structures and attachments of settlement. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-06-10T06:47:53Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221098623
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Authors:Wendy Sims-Schouten, Patricia Gilbert Abstract: Race & Class, Ahead of Print. In this commentary the authors analyse how the concept of resilience can be and has been applied to Black, Asian and minority ethnic families and communities in ways that are biased, stigmatising and pathologising. They argue that current definitions of resilience need to be redefined and reconceptualised, particularly in settings dominated by White middle-class voices that define what ‘positive emotions’, ‘successful traits’ and ‘coping mechanisms’ entail. Here, through racism and flawed perceptions and interpretations of resilience and ‘othering’, members from ethnic minority communities are defined as in need of resilience support, whilst at the same time their experience of structural racism, e.g., in relation to mental health support, social/health care practices and school exclusions, is being erased. Instead, the authors argue that resilience can also mean ‘resistance’, i.e., resisting bad treatment and racism, as well as reflecting agency, identity and ownership of one’s own life and choices within this. Reframing resilience thus means taking account of multifaceted and interactive effects of personal, material, institutional and political factors that impact on behaviour, wellbeing and resilience, as well as acknowledging that the way in which ‘behaviour’ is received is by default flawed, if this is largely informed by an oppressive White middle-class viewpoint. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2022-05-05T06:15:10Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968221093882
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Authors:Elise Hjalmarson First page: 81 Abstract: Race & Class, Ahead of Print. Despite perfunctory characterisation of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) as a ‘triple win’, scholars and activists have long admonished its lack of government oversight, disrespect for migrant rights and indentureship of foreign workers. This article contends that the SAWP is predicated upon naturalised, deeply engrained and degrading beliefs that devalue Black lives and labour. Based on twenty months’ ethnographic fieldwork in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada, it reveals the extent to which anti-Black racism permeates, organises and frustrates workers’ lives on farms and in local communities. It situates such experiences, which workers characterise as ‘prison life’, in the context of anti-Black immigration policy and the workings of racial capitalism. This ethnography of Caribbean migrants not only adds perspective to scholarship hitherto focused on the experiences of Latino workers, but it also reinforces critical work on anti-Black racism in contemporary Canada. Citation: Race & Class PubDate: 2021-11-18T08:44:30Z DOI: 10.1177/03063968211054856