ABSTRACT

This important collection addresses recent developments in the teaching, studying and presentation of race across many disciplines, including sociology, politics, social geography, cultural studies and philosophy.
Drawing on the latest research in all these areas, the authors provide a comprehensive account of key controversies and debates and pinpoint new directions in research and scholarship that are likely to shape the study of race and ethnicity well into the next century.

chapter |16 pages

The continuing significance of race?

Teaching ethnic and racial studies in sociology

chapter |13 pages

The historiography of immigrants and ethnic minorities

Britain compared with the USA

chapter |12 pages

Teaching race in cultural studies

A ten-step programme of personal development

chapter |13 pages

Ethnicity etcetera

Social anthropological points of view

chapter |17 pages

‘Race' in psychology

Teaching the subject

chapter |12 pages

‘The approval of Headquarters'

Race and ethnicity in English studies

chapter |16 pages

Constructions of ‘race', place and discipline

Geographies of ‘racial' identity and racism

chapter |15 pages

Peopling the past

Approaches to ‘race' and ethnicity in archaeology