Claims that scientific racism is dead sometimes seem premature: while the body might have been buried by the eminent scientists gathered together by UNESCO several times after 1950 in the wake of the horrors of Belsen and Treblinka (and so many other factories of death), the ghost still seems to put in an occasional appearance in the academic work of individuals who put the name of science to their various assertions concerning inheritance and ‘race’ . ’Intelligence’ has long been a common arena for such work, and AIDS has more recently become an alternative terrain. Yet, it is only the neo-fascists who continue to publish photographs of human heads or statistics of imputed brain sizes, hierarchically ranked, in an attempt to legitimate their authoritarian objectives. In this rather specific sense, scientific racism was successfully buried some 40 years ago, at least in Europe and North America. Barkan has written a useful book which traces the terminal illness of the ’beast’ in the United States and Britain during the 1920s and 1930s.

champion) of Marx, the nationalist, the ’philosophical anthropologist of despair’, the conservative cultural critic, the precursor of the postmodernity debate, the epigone of Nietzsche, and so on. We will, no doubt, be revising these ’readings’ in the coming years; some will seem false interpretations and other new ones will arise. What is indisputable is that Weber’s work both generates such debates and that much of the time they are rewarding rather than purely scholastic ones. What is particularly striking is that this particular selection can indeed claim a

western Europe since the end of the Second World War. First, the post-1945 expansion of capitalism soon exhausted the labour reserves within the nationstates of north-west Europe, resulting in a series of labour migrations from either colonial or ex-colonial social formations or from proximate social formations in the Mediterranean region. The latter were composed exclusively of people who were given the legal status of alien or foreigner within the nation-state wherein they sold their labour power. Granted a temporary right of residence, it was expected that they would return to the nation-state of

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of the most appropriate policy to be adopted in order to correct such disadvantage. Because it is still the norm for British researchers to look across the Atlantic (despite the fact that there are important discontinuities in the structure and historical development of Britain and the United States) when explaining such patterns of disadvantage in British society, it is therefore likely that Boston’s book, which addresses the same kinds of question, will be widely discussed in Britain. His arguments therefore deserve special scrutiny. The primary object of Boston’s book is the writings of a small group of Afro-American political economists (the most well known in Britain being Thomas Sowell) whom Boston labels as conservative theorists. This is because they advocate that the market should be unfettered by state interven-

Journal Article The Struggle for Swazi Labour 1890–1920 Get access The Struggle for Swazi Labour 1890–1920, by Jonathan Crush. McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston and Montreal, 1987. xvii + 292pp. $32.50 hardback. ISBN 0 7735 0569 5. ROBERT MILES ROBERT MILES University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 350, January 1989, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098129 Published: 01 January 1989

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Why do some societies appear to experience little or no racial conflict? Scotland, for example, is perceived as having no race relations problem but, argue Miles and Dunlop, this does not mean an absence of racism. What distinguishes Scotland, they believe, is the absence of a ‘racialization of the political process’.

Christopher T. Husbands, RACIAL EXCLUSIONISM AND THE CITY: THE URBAN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL FRONT, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp. 191, £18. Harris Joshua and Tina Wallace with the assistance of Heather Booth, TO RIDE THE STORM: THE 1980 BRISTOL ‘RIOT’ AND THE STATE, London, Heinemann, 1983, pp. 221, £6.95.

Jack Brand, The National Movement in Scotland; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, pp. 330, £9.95. John Osmond, Creative Conflict: The Politics of Welsh Devolution; Llandysul and London: Gower Press and Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, pp. 305, £4.95. Anthony H. Birch, Political Integration and Disintegration in the British Isles; London George Allen and Unwin, 1977, pp. 183, £2.95.