Introduction to Looked Class, Talked Red by Barbara Harlow. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hoad, Neville
• Other Names: Gordon Avery F. guest-editor.; Hoad Neville guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Race & class. Volume 60:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 39
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: Barbara Harlow -- literary studies -- Ruth First -- South Africa -- University of Texas -- Austin; Race relations -- Periodicals; Social classes -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; 305.8
• DOI: 10.1177/0306396818811749
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-3968

Abstract

The author remembers his friend and colleague Barbara Harlow and provides an introductory context for the selection from her book-in-progress on Ruth First published in this special issue of Race & Class 60, no. 3 (2019). He describes just how Ruth First became of interest to Harlow, explaining the intersections of Ruth First's personal history as a public intellectual with the history of decolonisation and the anti-apartheid movement, and the intersection of a 'public' and 'private' or domestic life. He speculates as to why the project of over thirty years remained unfinished in terms of a final publication.