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Defining such attempts to segregate Black workers and citizens as whiteness riots, Charnley and Richmond powerfully demonstrate how racist street violence is neither extemporary nor irrational. In I Fractured i , Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond take up the daunting task of explaining it all for the layperson. In other words, by revisiting Black feminist analyses of class struggles and politics, Charnley and Richmond remind us all that identity politics are fundamentally about envisioning an identity of purpose that can sustain concrete practices of solidarity across multiple struggles against all forms of oppression; class I in primis i . [Extracted from the article]

It is through the globalised phenomenon of the military campaign that Hutchinson locates the ways in which imperialism fermented local settler colonial identity. Settlers, War and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1869-1902: By Sam Hutchinson. Citing over eighty newspapers and magazines across Australia, New Zealand and Britain, Hutchinson has drawn together a deeply researched and broadly sourced study of the settler colonial and metropolitan press. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores Virdee’s account of how racialized minorities in socialist movements ‘played an instrumental role in trying to align struggles against racism with those against class exploitation’ (p. 164). In so doing, Virdee makes an important intervention at a time when popular historians and other ideologues are colluding in the elevation of myths and – no doubt in their view – noble lies that preclude these stories. Moving through theoretical debates concerning the relationships between race and class, the nature and form of sociologies of ‘outsiders’, to political issues of mobilization, Virdee’s book successfully brings in from the margins an account the multi-ethnic character of the working class in England from the very moment of its inception. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]