First published in 1997, this book examines the issue of racist and antiracist movements which are increasingly taking the stage in contemporary European societies in the face of a rapidly changing cultural landscape.

1. The Theoretical Bricolage. 2. Media Modernity and the Drama of Immigration. 3. The Struggle Over That 'that bit of cloth'. 4. The Antiracist Movement in Sweden: the Activists' Self-Perceptions of the Struggle. 5. The Drama of Immigration and Popular Culture: the 'backstage' of Political Protest. 6. The Explosive Sociality of the Confrontation. 7. The Ephemeral Sociality of Rainbow Coalitions.