1. The organic crisis of British capitalism and race: the experience of the seventies -- 2. Just plain common sense: the 'roots' of racism -- 3. In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty: sociology and black 'pathology' -- 4. Police and thieves -- 5. Schooling in Babylon -- 6. White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood -- 7. Gender, race and class: Asian women in resistance -- 8. Steppin' out of Babylon; race, class and autonomy
Summary
There are many reasons why issues raised by the study of races and racisms shouldbe central to the concerns of cultural studies. Yet racist ideologies and racial conflictshave been ignored, both in historical writing and in accounts of the present. Ifnothing else, this book should be taken as a signal that this marginalization cannotcontinue. It has also been conceived as a corrective to the narrowness of the Englishleft whose version of the national-popular continues to deny the role of blacks andblack struggles in the making and the remaking of the working class
