Mike Phillips: You'd have to be dim not to realise that the use of a word like 'golliwog' is offensive in Britain today
October 2008
Rebel with a cause
Mike Phillips
Mike Phillips: Black History Month: My hero, the great Russian writer Alexander Sergevitch Pushkin, defied the limitations of his origins
August 2008
As racism fades into my memory, it begins yet again for others
Mike Phillips
Mike Phillips: For many, more recent migrants, the city offers an experience which feels uncomfortably like the way it was for black migrants in the Fifties
December 2006
The mask of the gods
Courtney Tulloch
October 2006
The black history mystery
Mike Phillips
Mike Phillips: Black History Month has shown that our displays of British culture have not yet found a space for the roles played by black people.
September 2006
English and proud of it
Mike Phillips searches for the deeper meaning behind one immigrant's success story, George Alagiah's A Home From Home.
July 2006
Visions of Africa
The first Europeans went to exploit the continent and were soon followed by artists excited by the 'primitive'. But, as a new exhibition shows, the images they produced bear the stamp of colonialism with a paint brush, writes Mike Phillips.
June 2006
Ben Bousquet
Wave power
May 2006
Seeking refuge
Mike Phillips on the Nigerian-born author Segun Afolabi's collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere.
March 2006
Jinn palace
Mike Phillips on Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House, an unusual account of house-buying abroad.
February 2006
Going to the dogs
Mike Phillips admires Anita Diamant's thoughtful portrait of a community in decline, The Last Days of Dogtown.
January 2006
Experiments in brutality
Kunal Basu explores the origins of European discrimination in a taut, elegant novel, Racists, says Mike Phillips.
December 2005
What was Montreal?
George Elliott Clarke's tale of racism and murder in small-town Canada, George and Rue, doesn't live up to its promise, says Mike Phillips.
June 2005
Helen Denniston
Faith healing
May 2005
Goodbye, history
How sweet it was
April 2005
Blood in the sand
Nuruddin Farah brings the deadly chaos of Somalia to life in his novel of an exile's return, Links. But why did he choose to write it in English, asks Mike Phillips.
