Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, two black police detectives, have a tough shift on the streets of Harlem in New York. Sean Sheehan Their task is to try and administer justice in a place and a time when the odds are stacked against them. They give […]
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Diaspora and language: a battlefield for identity
Language is revealed as a battlefield for identity where the same terms, from ‘wetback’ to ‘jibaró’, can be used to oppress or to reaffirm group belonging. This analysis explores how minorities appropriate stereotypes and the hybrid richness of Spanglish and Nuyorican. (The Prisma memoirs) Graham Douglas An article […]
Can tolerance become intolerance?
The coexistence of different cultures and religions faces the challenge of balancing respect, pluralism and freedom of expression, amid debates over whether some models of integration may lead to new forms of uniformity. Nigel Pocock Some have argued that such an utopian vision of society could not be […]
Power, freedom and their contradictions: peace and hate
The tensions between those who govern and those who are governed raise debates about corruption, inequality and the limits of individual freedom within the political, economic and social structures that shape collective life. Victor Ofosu “Who are they?” Could it be the State, whose ambition it focused on […]
Nazi capitalism: beyond the darkness
Nazism tends to be mostly written about and situated in the context of World War II and the Holocaust. Sean Sheehan What tends to be underplayed is the extensive network of concentration camps within Germany itself and eastern Europe that relied on slave labour and the application of […]
















