ABSTRACT
This conclusion chapter presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book commented on all of the chapters to varying degree. But the author have departed somewhat from the editors preferred tripartite structure of Racing Histories and Geographies, Race, Place and Politics, and Race, Space and Everyday Geographies to try and identify some significant cross-cutting themes. So, for example, in Bonnett's chapter, taking a longer historical perspective demonstrates how earlier processes of globalisation led to a reinvention of many of our key concepts, focusing here on the crisis of whiteness in the late nineteenth century and the emergence of a political discourse about the West. Most of the chapters in this book contribute to the argument that racism takes different shape and form in different times and places that geography matters in Massey and Allen's succinct formulation. The argument is built up in a particularly compelling way in several chapters on the distinctiveness of Scottish racism.
