USC is loading up for another Olympic run in Japan, and the women’s track and field team offered a timely reminder of the Trojans’ prowess in Olympic sports. 1 in overall Summer Olympic medals among American schools. USC is the all-time leader, the gold standard - literally - among American universities at the Olympics. It is fitting that we reflect on the 1984 Summer Olympics as the USC women’s track and field celebrates a national championship and the Trojans send many Olympians to Tokyo. One big part of the 1984 Games is that they were a catapult for women’s sports across the globe. N’in D’la Owey Innklan: Mi’kmaq sojourns in England by Bonita Lawrence (Chris Searle)Ĭover photograph taken by Jesse Freeman, at a Black Lives Matter protest on in Omaha, Nebraska.As the Tokyo Olympics approach, we continue to look at the legacy of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.Badges without borders: how global counterinsurgency transformed American policing by Stuart Schrader (Parastou Saberi).The Monster Enters: COVID-19 and the plagues of capitalism by Mike Davis Set the Night on Fire: LA in the sixties by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (Joseph Maggs).Angelo Soliman: desecrated bodies and the spectre of Enlightenment racism by Iris Wigger and Spencer Hadley.Palestinian leadership and the contemporary significance of the First Intifada by Nadia Naser-Najjab.Terrorcraft: empire and the making of the racialised terrorist threat by Deepa Kumar.Anti-Asian violence and US imperialism by Simeon Man.‘This is what a radical intervention could look like’: an interview with Barbara Ransby by Jenny Bourne.Global capitalism post-pandemic by William I.Associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, Simeon Mann provides a historical lens through which to understand anti-Asian racism, arguing that ‘anti-Asian violence should be seen not merely as episodic or as individual acts of violence targeting Asian peoples but as a structure of US settler colonialism and racial capitalism.’ In a similar vein, professor of media studies Deepa Kumar in a seminal piece on ‘Terrorcraft’, traces the making of the racialised terrorist threat in relation to Arabs and Muslims from the 1960s to the mid-‘80s, revealing how it was crafted deep in the US Empire. Racist state violence impacts a range of communities, and the early months of 2020 witnessed a spike in anti-Asian violence in the US.
Two books by political writer Mike Davis, reviewed by UK activist Joseph Maggs, resonate powerfully amid the on-going Black Lives Matter uprisings – The Monster Enters which argues for a reckoning with the global capitalist system, and Set the Night on Fire: on the activism of Black and Chicano LA youth in the ‘60s. In a crucial interview with black feminist organiser Barbara Ransby she describes how the movement for black lives in the US is a watershed moment that has been years in the making, with black feminists leading the way, pushing a radical, holistic approach to liberation.
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The technologies of the global police state were brought out in full force against hundreds of thousands of anti-racist Black Lives Matter protesters across the US following the killing of George Floyd. Robinson reveals how the pandemic is accelerating the process of global capitalist restructuring, helping a new bloc of transnational capital to amass ever-greater power. In ‘ Global capitalism post-pandemic’, professor of sociology and global studies William I. Key Race & Class analysts make sense of this current moment.
This year, the COVID-9 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter anti-racist upheaval have dominated the headlines across the world. The October issue of Race & Class contains key articles that make sense of the crises we are in – of COVID-19, of racist state violence and of global capitalism – and asks, is this a watershed moment?
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