Racism and Ethnicity: Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions examines in detail the theories, histories and principal debates of race, racism and ethnicity within a global context. The text offers critical evaluation of the work of major figures from Du Bois to Goldberg, and presents new research on pre-modern racisms, contemporary scientific racisms, racist violence, racism reduction, ethnicity in the UK and European patterns of exclusion and discrimination. Richly illustrated throughout with examples and case studies drawn from across the world and time, the book also offers a range of in-text features to aid study, including: chapter summaries, key concept boxes, chapter activities and further reading.
Racism and Ethnicity: Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions will be core reading for students at all levels across the social sciences and the humanities ranging from history and cultural studies through sociology to political and policy analysis. It will also be of significant interest to researchers and policy makers in a range of fields.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Historical groundings: the global formation of racism
Introduction
Origins: the complex global roots of race
Race, colonialism and genocide
Mobilising race: blackness
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Categorising peoples: race science, genomics and naming
Introduction
The rise and fall of racial science
Contemporary race science and bio-colonialism
Categorisation, identity and naming
Conclusion
Chapter 3
Theorising racism and ethnicity: foundations
Introduction
Pioneer of race theory: Anna Julia Cooper’s account of racism and intersectionality
Pioneer of ethnicity theory: Max Weber’s account of the ‘race-ethnicity-nation’ complex
Pioneer of race relations theory: Robert Park and the Chicago School
Building on the pioneers: The emergence of the British sociology of race relations
Conclusion
Chapter 4
Understanding ethnicity: theoretical and conceptual debates
Introduction
Ethnicity: concepts, approaches and relations
Ethnicity in the UK
Researching ethnicity
Chapter 5
Racism, ethnicity and migration: building a global analysis
Introduction
Migration
Approaches to an integrated analysis of migration, racism and ethnicity
Conclusion
Chapter 6
Racist violence and racism reduction
Introduction
Explanations and motives
Evidence
Racism reduction
Conclusion
Chapter 7
Exclusion and discrimination: Europe and the Roma
Introduction
Understanding discrimination
Racial and ethnic discrimination and exclusion in Europe
Exclusion and discrimination in housing: evidence from Western Europe
Exclusion and discrimination in education: the Roma
Social exclusion of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK and political mobilisation in the UK and Europe
Conclusion
Chapter 8
Representing racism, ethnicity and migration in news media
Introduction
Back to fundamentals: conceptualising media racism
Race and media in Russia
Race and media in the US
Race and media in Europe
Conclusion
Chapter 9
Prospects for a post-ethnic, post-racial world
Introduction
Post-thinking
Minorities
The global racial crisis
Conclusion
Biography
Law, Ian
