Kenan Malik

From "Fifty Years After', Du Bois' foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Souls of Black Folk https://t.co/yINSGddjA2

Kenan Malik

And this is a table from Carl Brigham’s 1923 book “A Study of American Intelligence” on the different degrees of “Nordic”, “Alpine” and “Mediterranean” blood in different European nations. Only those with mostly Nordic blood were considered “white” 18/ https://t.co/wbueCENsjg

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“Questions of privilege”: @stephenkb in @FinancialTimes reviews *Not So Black and White*, together with @daverich1’s *Everyday Hate* and Andrew Rosenberg’s *Undesirable Immigrants*: https://t.co/Bdq3J2NJ8d 1/

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“…races may form – not merely one, but several races – so miserable, inferior and bastardized that they may be classed as below the most inferior savage races, for their inferiority is sometimes beyond cure.” (Cited in Daniel Pick, “Faces of Degeneration”, p. 60) 6/

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The book’s restraint is also its strength. The tension in the narrative flows from the dread captured in the title – the dread of waiting to be arrested, to be vanished into detention, a dread no Uyghur can escape.

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@ChapelGuilt @ObserverUK Susan Sontag (in "On Photography"): "Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality... of making it stand still... One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images."

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@RaphaelSylves20 @ObserverUK Thank you. Eliot himself added notes to the end of the poem. There is a new book by Matthew Hollis which is a "biography" of The Waste Land, which provides some of the broader context and background.

Kenan Malik

@lilliputroyal @shashj @Hanifkureishi The documentary, Islam: The Untold Story, was based on his book In The Shadow of the Sword. It was certainly broadcast in 2012 by Channel 4. I’m not aware of censorship more recently but @holland_tom of course is the person to ask.

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@pokeymarley @Iram_Ramzan 1."Struggle to call it out"... Having written a book called "From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed from The Satanic Verses to Salman Rushdie" I think I know better than you how to call things out. Helps to know what someone's done before challenging them for not doing it.

Kenan Malik

Albert Woodfox, one of the “Angola 3”, placed in solitary confinement for *42 years* as political punishment, has died. https://t.co/bdOXwuM5c8