30 July 2001
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Cover story
So what tribe do you belong to?
The race issue - If we want to understand our confusion about ethnic groupings we should start by looking at Europe. Marek Kohn examines a few inconsistencies
Features
Sex at 14? Blame it on her parents
Be wary of so-called "science" using children as ideological pawns, warns Geraldine Bedell
The failure that led to Carlo's death
Few protesters at Genoa expected or wanted violence. Johann Harion the disgust with world summitry that left even pacifists wanting to throw stones
More Hackney than Bollywood
The race issue - The British want ethnic minorities to be romantic, exotic, and above all non-Muslim. It's just another way of saying that we don't belong here, argues Ziauddin Sardar
I'm not going to just smile and take it
The race issue - This generation will not put up with abuse
Back to the land of leg shackles
After 12 years of living in America, Andrew Stephen finds Britain risks becoming a Big Brother state, but is still far more benign than the US of A
Enoch's gone: now for the hard part
The race issue - The right and the left talk of tolerance, inclusion and multiculturalism. But if our war on racism is won, equality still eludes us, warns Mike Phillips
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Rod Liddle
The man behind the Today programme looks like a pop star, swears a lot, and believes in mischief-making. Rod Liddle interviewed
Culture
The age of ignorance
Why bother with the classics today? Our lack of knowledge about ancient civilisation leaves us blind to a true understanding of the modern world, argues A C Grayling
Spot on
Art - Tom Rosenthal puts the second-division divisionist back in the picture
In full bloom
Music - Patrick O'Connor celebrates 30 years of a daring soprano career
Theatre
Celtic fringe
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on a strangely inconsistent season at the Globe
Film
The worst of British
Film - Philip Kerr watches Mel Smith's latest comedy thriller fall flat on its face
Television
Twin freaks
Television - Zoe Williams enjoys an unedifying insight into the lives of the Kilshaws
Books
Beyond a boundary. His writings on race, cricket and colonial rebellion turned C L R James into an icon of black radicalism. So why today is he so misunderstood? By Kenan Malik
C L R James: Cricket, the Caribbean and World Revolution Farrukh Dhondy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 190pp, £20 ISBN 0297646133
Affairs of the heart
Summerland Malcolm Knox Picador, 256pp, £12.99 ISBN 0330486780
Upwardly mobile
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes Jonathan Rose Yale University Press, 538pp, £29.95 ISBN 0300088868
Paperback reader
Coloured Lights Leila Aboulela Polygon, 149pp, £8.99 ISBN 0748662987
Blood suckers
Mosquito: the story of mankind's deadliest foe Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio Faber and Faber, 267pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571209807
Bulgarian heroes
The Fragility of Goodness: why Bulgaria's Jews survived the Holocaust Tzvetan Todorov Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 198pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297646702
Novel of the week
Bel Canto Ann Pratchett Forth Estate, 318pp, £10 ISBN 1841155829
