{{Short description|Academic journal on racism and imperialism}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox journal | title = Race & Class | cover = Race & Class cover.jpg | editor = {{ubl|Jenny Bourne|Hazel Waters}} | discipline = Anthropology, political science, sociology | former_names = Race | abbreviation = Race Cl. | publisher = SAGE Publications on behalf of the Institute of Race Relations | country = | frequency = Quarterly | history = 1959–present | openaccess = | license = | impact = 2.6 | impact-year = 2022 | website = http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200818 | link1 = http://rac.sagepub.com/content/current | link1-name = Online access | link2 = http://rac.sagepub.com/content/by/year | link2-name = Online archive | JSTOR = | OCLC = 2240562 | LCCN = 75641645 | CODEN = | ISSN = 0306-3968 | eISSN = 1741-3125 }} '''''Race & Class''''' is a peer-reviewed academic journal on contemporary racism and imperialism. It is published quarterly by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Institute of Race Relations and is interdisciplinary, publishing material across the humanities and social sciences.
== History == The journal was established in 1959 as '''''Race''''', before obtaining its current title in 1974 (when it was subtitled ''Journal 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 rapid social and political changes, liberation struggles and the installation of popular governments in some of the newly independent countries of the Third World, the phenomenon of Black Power, and the Movement 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 and Walter Rodney – they were killed in the pursuit of their realization.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irr.org.uk/publication/raceandclass/ |title=Race & Class – history, coverage, principles |year=2011 |publisher=Institute of Race Relations |access-date=10 June 2011 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214163036/http://www.irr.org.uk/publication/raceandclass/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Abstracting and indexing == The journal is abstracted and indexed by EBSCO databases, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, MLA International Bibliography, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'' in 2011, ''Race & Class'' had an impact factor of 2.6, ranking it 13 out of 92 in the category "Anthropology",<ref name=WoS1>{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Anthropology |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |title-link=Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Science |series=Web of Science }} {{subscription required}}</ref> 6 out of 20 in "Ethnic Studies",<ref name=WoS2>{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Ethnic Studies |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |title-link=Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Science |series=Web of Science }} {{subscription required}}</ref> and 49 out of 149 in "Sociology".<ref name=WoS3>{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |title-link=Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Science |series=Web of Science }} {{subscription required}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|1=http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200818}} * [http://www.irr.org.uk/publication/raceandclass/ Journal page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214163036/http://www.irr.org.uk/publication/raceandclass/ |date=14 February 2012 }} at Institute of Race Relations website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Race and Class}} Category:Anthropology journals Category:English-language journals Category:Ethnic studies journals Category:Political science journals Category:Academic journals established in 1959 Category:Quarterly journals Category:Sage Publishing academic journals Category:Sociology journals