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| Discipline | Anthropology,political science, sociology |
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| Language | English |
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Former name | Race |
| History | 1959–present |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications on behalf of theInstitute of Race Relations |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 2.6 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Race Cl. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0306-3968 (print) 1741-3125 (web) |
| LCCN | 75641645 |
| OCLC no. | 2240562 |
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Race & Class is apeer-reviewedacademic journal on contemporary racism andimperialism. It is published quarterly bySAGE Publications on behalf of theInstitute of Race Relations and isinterdisciplinary, publishing material across thehumanities andsocial sciences.
The journal was established in 1959 asRace, before obtaining its current title in 1974 (when it was subtitledJournal for Black and Third World Liberation). The new editor,Ambalavaner Sivanandan, rejected what he saw as the arid scholarship of its predecessor, calling out instead to the "Third World intelligentsia, its radicals and political activists, its refugees and exiles".
Race & Class covered events that shaped the 1970s, specifically the period's widespread and rapidsocial andpolitical changes, liberation struggles and the installation of popular governments in some of the newly independent countries of theThird World, the phenomenon ofBlack Power, and theMovement of Non-Aligned Countries. The journal was opened to radical scholars and activists, three of whom were so closely involved in the liberation movements they wrote of –Orlando Letelier,Malcolm Caldwell andWalter Rodney – they were killed in the pursuit of their realization.[1]
The journal is abstracted and indexed byEBSCO databases,Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences,International Bibliography of the Social Sciences,MLA International Bibliography, and theSocial Sciences Citation Index. According to theJournal Citation Reports in 2011,Race & Class had animpact factor of 2.6, ranking it 13 out of 92 in the category "Anthropology",[2] 6 out of 20 in "Ethnic Studies",[3] and 49 out of 149 in "Sociology".[4]