Catching History on the Wing

Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.


A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation 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 an introduction by Colin Prescod (chair of the IRR), which sets the writings in context.


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