Theories Of Race And Racism (a Reader)

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Edited by Back, Les; Edited by Solomos John

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Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital field of scholarship and research. Combining contributions from seminal thinkers, leading scholars and emergent voices, this reader provides a critical reflection on key trends and developments in the field.

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Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital and ever-evolving field of scholarship and research. Combining contributions from seminal thinkers, leading scholars and emergent voices, this reader provides a critical reflection on key trends and developments in the field.

The contributions to this reader provide an overview of key areas of scholarship and research on questions of race and racism. It provides a novel perspective by bringing together readings on the key theoretical and historical processes in this area, the development of diverse theoretical viewpoints, the analysis of antisemitism, the role of colonialism and postcolonialism, feminist perspectives on race and the articulation of new accounts of the contemporary conjuncture. The contributions to this reader include classic works by the likes of W.E.B. DuBois, Stuart Hall and Frantz Fanon as well as timely pieces by contemporary scholars including Orlando Patterson, Patricia Hill Collins and Paul Gilroy.

By bringing together a broad range of diverse accounts, Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader engages with various key areas of interest and is an invaluable guide for students and instructors seeking to explore issues of race and racism.

Table of contents:

Part One: Origins and Transformations Introduction 1. Winthrop D. Jordan First Impressions 2. Robert Bernasconi Who Invented the Concept of Race? 3. W. E. B. Du Bois The Conservation of Races 4. Orlando Patterson The Denial of Slavery in Contemporary American Sociology 5. Satnam Virdee Racialized Capitalism 6. Zine Magubane American Sociology’s Racial Ontology 7. Jacqueline Nassy Brown Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space 8. Catherine Hall Doing Reparatory History
Part Two: Sociology, Race and Social Theory Introduction 9. Robert Park The Nature of Race Relations 10. E. Franklin Frazier Sociological Theory and Race Relations 11. Jose Itzigsohn and Karida Brown Sociology and the Theory of Double Consciousness 12. Aldon D. Morris W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center 13. Gurminder K. Bhambra Race, Segregation and U.S. Sociology 14. Stuart Hall Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities 15. Brett St Louis On the Necessity and the ‘Impossibility’ of Identities 16. Salman Sayyid Post-racial Paradoxes 17. Graziella Moraes Silva Folk Conceptualizations
of Racism and Antiracism in Brazil and South Africa 18. Wendy D. Roth The Multiple Dimensions of Race 19. Ann Morning Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership 20. Elijah Anderson The White Space 21. Claire Alexander Breaking Black
Part Three: Racism and Antisemitism Introduction 22. George L. Mosse The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth 23. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer Elements of Anti-Semitism 24. Dan Stone Not a Race but Only a People after All 25. Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine Reconnecting the
Study of Racism and Antisemitism 26. Nasar Meer and Tehseen Noorani A Sociological Comparison of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Britain 27. Jonathan Judaken Rethinking the New Antisemitism in a Global Age 28. Brian Klug Interrogating New Anti-Semitism 29. Tony Kushner Anti-Semitism in Britain 30. Elli Ti