Tag: Kurt Barling

  • Book Review: The ‘R’ Word by Kurt Barling The LSE Review of Books London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom 2016-03-04 Amal Shahid As the newest edition to the Provocations series from Biteback Publishing, The ‘R’ Word challenges the idea that we have entered a ‘post-racial’ society in which race no longer represents a significant…

  • The ‘R’ Word Biteback Publishing 2015-11-27 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781849549424 eBook ISBN: 9781785900099 Kurt Barling, Professor of Journalism Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter…