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This is a short article on racism and mental health in The Guardian (2 April 2007). The author succinctly argues that the continuing high levels of psychotic illness in people of African and Caribbean origin in the UK is of epidemic proportions and asks why nothing is being done about it.

A list of essential cricket books to read while watching the World Cup:

C.L.R. James (2005)[1963] Beyond a Boundary, Yellow Jersey Press, New Ed. Press

Ashis Nandy (1990) The Tao of Cricket, Penguin Books

Mike Marquese (2005) Anyone But England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket, Aurum Press

Michael Manley (2002) A History of West Indies Cricket, Andre Deutsch

Ramachandra Guha (2003) A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport, Picador

Rahul Bhattarcharya (2005) Pundits from Pakistan: On tour with India, 2003-04, Picador

See Jovert vol 1.2 1997 for a review of the following texts on Fanon:

“Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies,” conference held at New York University, October 11-12, 1996.

Lewis R. Gordon, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essav on Philosophy and the Human Sciences. New York: Routledge, 1995. Softcover $17.95 / Hardcover 62.95.

Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Renee T. White, eds., Fanon: A Critical Reader. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996. 350 pgs. Softcover $23.95.

Alan Read, ed., The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Eanon and Visual Representation. Seattle: Bay Press, 1996. 212pgs. Softcover $18.95.

Article by Richard Keller from the Journal of Social History (12/22/2001)

A collection of papers of the Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics panel presented at the European Social Forum ESF 2004, 16th Oct, Alexander Palace, London. Organised by Feminist Review in collaboration with SCONVEGNO, NextGenderation, BSA Race Forum, and the Torina SambaBand

Contents

1. Nirmal Puwar (Feminist Review, U.K) - An Introduction to the Panel
2. Amal Treacher (Feminist Review, U.K) - Working Together: Pulling Apart
3. Firdous Azim (Naripokkho, Bangladesh) - Feminist Struggles in Bangladesh
4. Chiara Martucci, Sveva Magaraggia & Francesca Pozzi (SCONVEGNO, Italy) - Crossing boundaries: identities in movement

If you missed the BBC series Power of Nightmares (broadcast Jan 2005) about the relationship between USA Neo-Conservatives and ‘Radical Islam’, all three episodes are available for online viewing at the archive.org