Big Flame: New Movements, New Politics
This book is in print at last. It was in November 2010 that I took a trip from Leeds, England, to Bologna, Italy, to interview Marcello Dall’Aglio for my first foray into Big Flame’s history. Bologna was cold and grey and the magnificent mansion where Marcello lived and worked didn’t have much heating. He rented […]
Speaking Truth To Power — The Life and Times of an African Caribbean British Man (Arthur France MBE)
Arthur France MBE is a hero of mine. He is a founder of Black Power in Leeds, of the Leeds West Indian Carnival and the New World Steel Orchestra. I promised Arthur and Tattra France that I’d write his biography, and the only good thing about the Covid Pandemic was that it gave me the […]
Islam in the West – Key Issues in Multiculturalism (Palgrave, 2012)
Co-edited by Max Farrar, Simon Robinson, Yasmin Valli and Paul Wetherly, this book examines a range of issues that have commanded media attention over the past few years in which ideas about Islam and the lives of Muslims have proved controversial. These flash-points have contributed to what some have called a crisis in multiculturalist discourse. […]
Teaching Race in the Social Sciences – What Next?
Todd, Malcolm and Farrar, Max (eds) (2007) Teaching Race in the Social Sciences – What Next? [Conference Proceedings] These proceedings of a C-SAP Conference, with photographs by Max Farrar, may be downloaded from the website of the Higher Education Academy’s Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, at http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/