%0 Journal Article %T Introduction to Looked Class, Talked Red by Barbara Harlow %A Neville Hoad %J Race & Class %@ 1741-3125 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0306396818811749 %X The author remembers his friend and colleague Barbara Harlow and provides an introductory context for the selection from her book-in-progress on Ruth First published in this special issue of Race & Class 60, no. 3 (2019). He describes just how Ruth First became of interest to Harlow, explaining the intersections of Ruth First¡¯s personal history as a public intellectual with the history of decolonisation and the anti-apartheid movement, and the intersection of a ¡®public¡¯ and ¡®private¡¯ or domestic life. He speculates as to why the project of over thirty years remained unfinished in terms of a final publication %K Barbara Harlow %K literary studies %K Ruth First %K South Africa %K University of Texas %K Austin %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306396818811749