Theories of Race and Racism : a Reader /
edited and introduced by Les Back and John Solomos.
- 1st ed.
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2000.
- xxiv, 646 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Routledge Student Readers .
Includes indexes.
Series Editor Preface Introduction: Theorising Race and Racism / Les Back and John Solomon Part One: ORIGINS AND TRANSFORMATIONS 1. First Impressions / Winthrop Jordan 2. The Idiom of Race / Michael Banton 3. Race and Racism / Tzvetan Todorov 4. Race Relations / Oliver Cox 5. The Conservation of Races / W.E.B. Du Bois 6. Racial Beliefs in America / Gunnar Myrdal Part Two: SOCIOLOGY, RACE AND SOCIAL THEORY 7. The Nature of Race Relations / Robert Park 8. Race: What It Is Not / Ruth Benedict 9. Race Relations in Sociological Theory / John Rex 10. A propos the Idea of “Race”... Again / Robert Miles 11. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall 12. Racial Knowledge / David Theo Goldberg 13. The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race / Howard Winant Part Three: RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM 14. The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth / George Mosse 15. Elements of Anti-Semitism / Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer 16. Modernity, Racism, Extermination / Zygmunt Bauman 17. Are Jews White? / Sander Gilman 18. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews / Matthew Jacobson Part Four: COLONIALISM, RACE AND THE OTHER 19. The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon 20. Imperial Culture / Lola Young 21. The White Family Man / Anne McClintock 22. Under Western Eyes / Chandra Talpade Mohanty 23. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers / Ann Stoler 24. “Race” Time and the Revision of Modernity / Homi Bhabha Part Five: FEMINISM, DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY 25. Racism and Feminism / Bell Hooks 26. White Woman Listen! / Hazel Carby 27. Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins 28. Race and Rights / Patricia Williams 29. Difference, Diversity, Differentiation / Avatar Brah 30. White Woman, Race Matters / Ruth Frankenberg 31. Black Feminism and the Academy / Barbara Christian Part Six: CHANGING BOUNDARIES AND SPACES 32. Black Skin/White Boards / Gargi Bhattacharyya 33. The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification / Paul Gilroy 34. Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics / Kobena Mercer 35. Identity and the Spaces of Authenticity / Michael Keith 36. The Matter of Whiteness / Richard Dyer 37. Race, Reform and Retrenchment / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 38. America Again at the Crossroads / Stephen Steinberg 39. The Lore of the Homeland: Hindu Nationalism and Indigenist “Neoracism” / Chetan Bhatt 40. Enjoy Your Nation as Yourself / Slavoj Zizek 41. Racial Identity and Racial Identification / Anthony Appiah Guide to Further Reading Name index Subject index
"This comprehensive reader brings together foundational work in the study of race and ethnicity and writings from many of the most exciting scholars today. It is divided into main sections: Origins and Transformations; Sociology, Race and Social Theory; Racism and Anti-Semitism; Colonialism, Race and the Other; Feminism, Difference and Identity; Changing Boundaries and Spaces. Each section begins with a brief editorial introduction, providing a guide to the reading in that section by historically contextualising them and relating them to other writings in the reader. Cross-national in content, historical in scope and offering a variety of perspectives, Theories of Race and Racism will prove an invaluable resource for undergraduates across a range of disciplines." (Book Cover)