Radicals Against Race was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2003. The prize is given each year by the British Sociological Association for the best single-authored book by a new author published in the previous year.

The book uses biography and ethnography to tell the story of New Beacon Books, founded in London in 1966 by John La Rose and Sarah White. It offers an innovative account of radical antiracist cultural politics in postwar Britain from the perspective of  activists who made culture a space of political contestation.

Highlighting the important cultural, theoretical and political implications of biography and self-representation, Alleyne succeeds in making an original contribution to a growing literature on autobiography as a rich resource for understanding social and political theory. He also provides an engaging account of a neglected area of British activism.

This book will be of interest to social anthropologists, sociologists, and anyone interested in the history  of British activism or race and ethnic studies.

Copyright Brian Alleyne 2003. All rights reserved.