Les Back teaches sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His latest book is Out of Whiteness: color, politics and culture, with Vron Ware (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Recent articles

Twenty-five years ago, punk exploded into Britain’s last royal jubilee. Has that extraordinary moment itself become a subordinate part of the national heritage, or is the radical anger that inspired it still germinating beneath the thrones of power?

A prophetic thirty-year old song illuminates a deep truth: that the language of our hearts and our public life is in urgent need of regeneration. And that can only come from within.