ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of race and ethnicity play in shaping forms of political mobilisation and action. This is an important and growing area of scholarship and research, and we seek to engage with the main areas of scholarly debate in this area. This then leads us onto a discussion of how demands for representation and inclusion in political institutions impact on other institutions and power relations in society. These questions have helped to frame the evolving research agendas in this field and to encourage the emergence of more critical perspectives on this issue. The mobilisations over the past decade around the symbolic banner of Black Lives Matter have highlighted the need for more radical measures to tackle racialised inequalities in both the political and social spheres. An important question explored in this chapter is about the implications of these radical mobilisations for efforts to transform political institutions in relation to the representation of racial and ethnic minorities.
