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1. Bringing the margins into the middle: reflections on racism, class and the racialized outsider.

Author

Meer, Nasar

Subjects
RACE & society, SOCIAL classes, NONFICTION, HISTORY
Abstract

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]

Published
2015
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2. Outsiders and insiders: changing boundaries of radicalism, racism and class.

Author

Jefferys, Steve

Subjects
WORKING class, RACISM, IRISH people, ITALIAN politics & government, 1849-1870, CATHOLIC identity, HISTORY of Chartism, LABOR movement, ENGLISH Catholics, RADICALISM, HISTORY, POLITICAL participation, NINETEENTH century, INTERNATIONAL cooperation
Abstract

Virdee's book adds enormously to our understanding of two interconnected processes: the ways in which racism and nationalism in England/Britain became totally intertwined and embedded in working-class views of the world, and how at certain key moments those racially cast out from that depressing maelstrom may become the champions of an anti-racist internationalism. I am fractionally less negative than the author about the seemingly total hold of racism/nationalism on the whole working class, and less certain about racialized ‘outing’ as the key to the DNA of universalist anti-racists. Using the Garibaldi mobilizations of 1862–64, I suggest he may have underestimated the potential and reasons for ‘insider’ working-class resistance to racism/nationalism, and suggest greater caution in arguing an association between ‘racialized outsiders’ and internationalist views. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2015
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