The Importance of Disappointment

And those migration stories just keep coming. This time the focus in Britain. The Guardian tells us that government saught to bury, dela...

An interesting footnote to the intertwined histories of metropolitan discussions of race inequality and global discussions of post-coloniali...

Thanks to Afro-Netizen I learn of 'In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience' probably the largest single documentation ...

I have seriously considered stopping referring to specific posts at At Any Street Corner as they are all worth reading. Yet another example...

Following my post below , here is a photograph by Roger Mayne taken in 1956: "I got past them, thank God I got past them, and then...

Two very different pieces about the Iraq war that are both a cut above. Eliot Weinberger is impassioned in What I Heard About Iraq from the...

Thanks to Conscientious I have discovered Beth Yarnelle Edwards' images of the contemporary, suburban domestic sphere. These are ...

"In organisational ideology, readiness for such an extreme self-sacrifice is articulated as a moral virtue; indeed, as the moral virtue...

"... I too entered the Lager as a non-believer, and as a non-believer I was liberated and have lived to this day; actually the experien...

Today I remember Barnett 'Barney' Greenman , born on March 17 1940; gassed in Auschwitz two and a half years later.

The Muslim Council of Britain's decision not to attend Auschwitz commemoration events has rightly come in for criticism . Normblog ...

I was really touched by this .

Two really good posts by At Any Street Corner here and here on the thirtieth aniversary edition of the journal Race and Class .

Two miss-the-point letters in the Guardian today in response to Paul Gilroy's article on Harry, Nazis and Empire (discussed in an earli...

Normblog rightly highlights the Guardian obituary of Communist and Trade Unionist Hadi Saleh recently killed by insurgents in Iraq (see pr...

Hi readers it's new happy, whacky Dave here. I'm probably the last to discover this but I really enjoyed Russell Davies' tri...

Importance gets a namecheck from the admirable pas au-delà as part of a list of new blogs but there is a sting in the tail: " ...d...

I liked Paul Gilroy's article in today's Guardian on Prince Harry attending a 'Colonists and Natives' fancy dress party in ...

Possibly according to Normblog .

Eric Hobsbawm's defence of objective historical knowledge reproduced in Saurday's Guardian has rightly been highlighted across the ...