Race and social policy: Sivanandan's ‘grounded theory’

Most notably in Police Against Black People (London, IRR, 1979) and Policing Against Black People (London, IRR, 1986)

See, for example, CARF (No. 7, 1978) and subsequent issues

Murray Nancy , and Searle Chris , Your Daily Dose: racism and the press in Thatcher's Britain (London, IRR, 1989)

Deadly Silence: Black Deaths in Custody (London, IRR, 1991)

Race, Class and the State (London, IRR, 1976). Further references are drawn from the version reproduced in A. Sivanandan, A Different Hunger (London, Pluto Press, 1982)

Sivanandan A. , ‘Challenging Racism: strategies for the 1980s’ in Communities of Resistance (London, Verso, 1990)

Sivanandan A. , Race and Resistance: the IRR story (London, Race Today Publications, 1975)

The current government's plans to disperse asylum-seekers to designated reception zones echo these earlier plans for immigrant dispersal

In Stuart Hall's introduction to Sivanandan A. , A Different Hunger, op. cit., p. x

In Stuart Hall's introduction to Sivanandan A. , A Different Hunger, op. cit., p. x

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., p. 102

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., p. 103

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit.

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., pp. 104–5.

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., pp. 113–4.

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., pp. 117–8.

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., pp. 123–4.

‘Challenging racism’, op. cit., p. 64

‘Race, class and the state’, A Different Hunger, op. cit., p. 123

‘Racism 1992’, Communities of Resistance, op. cit., p. 159

‘RAT and the degradation of black struggle’, Communities of Resistance, op. cit., p. 114

The words are taken from the 1975 White Paper on Racial Discrimination, as quoted in ‘Race, class and the state’, op. cit., p. 123

‘UK commentary: Anti-racist not multicultural education: IRR statement to the Rampton Committee on Education’ Race & Class (Vol. XXII, no. 1, 1980), p. 82

Criticised in various pieces, most notably in ‘RAT and the Degradation of Black Struggle’, op. cit., pp. 90–96. Famously, Sivanandan told a reporter on the BBC tv Chronicle programme that meeting racism with Scarman's notion of positive discrimination was like ‘breaking my leg and giving me crutches. Don't break my leg in the first place.’

See in particular ‘Challenging Racism: strategies for the 1980s’, Communities of Resistance, op. cit

‘All that melts into air is solid: the hokum of new Times’, Communities of Resistance, op. cit

‘RAT and the degradation of black struggle’, op. cit

Cm 4262-I, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Report of an Inquiry by Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (London, Stationery Office, 1999)

‘RAT and the degradation of black struggle’, op. cit., p. 117