Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider

✍ Scribed by Satnam Virdee

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
The contours of the argument
2 Class, Nation and the Racialized Outsider
Introduction
‘The ready made nucleus of degradation and disorder’: The Irish Catholic worker and the class struggle
Black radicals as linchpin of the anti-slavery movement
Class over nation and the significance of the racialized outsider
Chartism and the multi-ethnic proletariat
3 Racism and the Contradictions of Socialist Nationalism
Introduction
Racism and the unmaking of the working class
Liberalism and the aristocracy of labour
The new unionism or the revolt of the ‘residuum’
Anti-semitism and the limits of socialist nationalism
4 Race, Empire and Its Discontents
Introduction
‘Half-devil and half-child’: Elite racism and the new imperialism
Empire in the working class imaginary
Integration in the nation
Internationalism in the age of imperialism I: James Connolly
Internationalism in the age of imperialism II: Jewish socialists
5 Class War, Racist Riots and Communism
Introduction
War, proletarian rebellion and racism
Racists, Reds and the revolt on the Clyde
A party of outsiders: The CPGB
The CPGB, anti-imperialism and anti-racism
6 Racism: From the Welfare Settlement to Enoch Powell
Introduction
‘You’ve never had it so good’: Racism in the age of affluence and national unity
The CPGB and the British Road to Socialism
Decolonization, ‘nigger-hunting’ and state racism
Enoch Powell, racist strikes and socialist inaction
Black resistance
7 Socialists, Anti-Racism and Working Class Bifurcation
Introduction
Class conflict, socialist activism and anti-racism
Rock Against Racism (RAR)
The Grunwick strike
‘We are black, we are white, together we are dynamite’: The Anti-Nazi League
The Anti-Nazi League: An assessment
8 Municipal Anti-Racism and Black Self-Organization
Introduction
Conservative victory, de-industrialization and the urban unrest
Socialist regroupment in the Labour Party and municipal anti-racism
‘Don’t discuss blacks behind our backs’: Black workers’ groups from NALGO to the TUC
9 Conclusions
The enduring significance of racism
From racial formation to working class formation: The racialized outsider as linchpin
Bibliography
Index