ABSTRACT

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader is an important and innovative collection that brings together extracts from the work of scholars, both established and up and coming, who have helped to shape the study of race and racism as an historical and contemporary phenomenon.

This second edition incorporates new contributions and editorial material and allows readers to explore the changing terms of debates about the nature of race and racism in contemporary societies. All six parts are organized around the contributions made by theorists whose work has been influential in shaping theoretical debates. The various contributions have been chosen to reflect different theoretical perspectives and to help readers gain a feel for the changing terms of theoretical debate over time. As well as covering the main concerns of past and recent theoretical debates it provides a glimpse of relatively new areas of interest that are likely to attract more attention in years to come.

part One|130 pages

Origins and transformations

chapter Chapter 1|18 pages

First Impressions

chapter Chapter 2|13 pages

The Idiom of Race

A critique of presentism

chapter Chapter 3|7 pages

Race and Racism

chapter Chapter 4|8 pages

Race Relations

Its meaning, beginning, and progress

chapter Chapter 5|21 pages

WHO Invented the Concept of Race?

chapter Chapter 6|8 pages

The Conservation of Races

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Racial Beliefs in America

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

Racism and Difference

chapter Chapter 9|25 pages

On Antiracism

part Two|93 pages

Sociology, race and social theory

chapter Chapter 10|8 pages

The Nature of Race Relations

chapter Chapter 11|6 pages

Race Relations in Sociological Theory

chapter Chapter 12|19 pages

Apropos the Idea of ‘Race’ … Again

chapter Chapter 13|10 pages

Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities

chapter Chapter 14|17 pages

Beyond Black

chapter Chapter 15|30 pages

Racial Knowledge

part Three|65 pages

Racism and anti-semitism

chapter Chapter 16|11 pages

The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth

chapter Chapter 17|6 pages

Elements of Anti-Semitism

The limits of Enlightenment

chapter Chapter 18|17 pages

Modernity, Racism, Extermination

chapter Chapter 19|9 pages

Are Jews White?

Or, The History of the Nose Job

chapter Chapter 20|19 pages

Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews

part Four|118 pages

Colonialism, race and the other

chapter Chapter 21|10 pages

The Fact of Blackness

chapter Chapter 22|20 pages

Imperial Culture

The primitive, the savage and white civilization 1

chapter Chapter 23|15 pages

The White Family of Man

Colonial discourse and the reinvention of patriarchy

chapter Chapter 24|21 pages

Under Western Eyes

Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses 1

chapter Chapter 25|30 pages

Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers

European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial Southeast Asia

chapter Chapter 26|19 pages

‘Race’ Time and the Revision of Modernity

part Five|120 pages

Feminism, difference and identity

chapter Chapter 27|15 pages

White Woman Listen!

Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood

chapter Chapter 28|17 pages

Black Feminist Thought

chapter Chapter 29|17 pages

Third Wave Black Feminism?

chapter Chapter 30|10 pages

Race and Rights

chapter Chapter 31|16 pages

Difference, Diversity, Differentiation

Processes of racialisation and gender

chapter Chapter 32|15 pages

White Women, Race Matters

The social construction of whiteness

chapter Chapter 33|27 pages

“You’re Calling me a Racist?”

The moral and emotional regulation ofantiracism and feminism

part Six|136 pages

Changing boundaries and spaces

chapter Chapter 34|13 pages

The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification

chapter Chapter 35|18 pages

Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics

chapter Chapter 37|12 pages

Race, Reform, and Retrenchment

Transformation and legitimation inantidiscrimination law

chapter Chapter 38|11 pages

America Again at the Crossroads

chapter Chapter 40|17 pages

From Bi-Racial to Tri-Racial

chapter Chapter 41|9 pages

Racial Identity and Racial Identification

chapter Chapter 42|19 pages

Race and Racism: Towards a Global Future