Kenan Malik. Photo: Tom TrevattRacism drew Kenan Malik to politics in 1970s Britain, where “Paki-bashing”—the gleeful term used by white racists to describe their assaults on immigrants from Pakistan and India—was “a national sport.” Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester. “By the time I was a teenager,” he writes, “it was difficult to think of many days when I wasn’t in a fight with racists.”

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Persons: Kenan Malik, Tom Trevatt, “, ”, India — Organizations: Indian, “ Locations: Britain, Pakistan, India, Manchester