'Ian Law has written an excellent book. It provides a wide-ranging overview of ideas and concepts, illustrated with reference to some illuminating historical and contemporary examples. An ideal textbook for undergraduate students.'

Professor John Gabriel, London Metropolitan University

'This book ... is clearly written and organized, exhaustive and theoretically sound. A must read, not only for the British academic public but also for students across the planet.'

Professor Marco Martiniello, FRS-FNRS and University of Liege

'Concise, balanced and incorporating a genuinely global perspective, Law's timely book should be compulsory reading for every student wishing to understand this complex, dynamic and vitally important subject.'

Professor John Stone, Boston University

Key features

• Carefully builds knowledge from key concepts, historical origins and categorisation, to a deeper understanding of the principal issues and debates.

• Addresses the operation of race and racism in their specific regional, national and local contexts.

• Examines in detail the theories and histories of race, racism and ethnicity, with critical evaluation of the work of major figures.

• Presents new research on topics such as pre-modern and contemporary scientific racisms, and European patterns of exclusion and discrimination.

• Illustrated with examples and case studies drawn from across the world and time, and supported by a range of features such as key concept boxes, activities and further reading.

"Racism and Ethnicity, Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions" provides a uniquely wide-ranging discussion of race, racism and ethnicity. Importantly, it simultaneously builds a new framework for global analysis drawing on the interrelations between three key forces: racism, ethnicity and migration. In doing so, it details the key debates, thinkers, theories, and origins of racism and ethnicity, examining in depth their ongoing power and durability in the 21st century.

This book is core reading for students across the social sciences and the humanities, from history and cultural studies through sociology and politics. It will also be of significant interest to researchers and policy makers in a range of fields.

Ian Law is Reader in Racism and Ethnicity Studies and was the founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Historical groundings: the global formation of racism

Introduction

Origins: the complex global roots of race

Race, colonialism and genocide

Mobilising race: blackness

Conclusion

Chapter 2 Categorising peoples: race science, genomics and naming

Introduction

The rise and fall of racial science

Contemporary race science and bio-colonialism

Categorisation, identity and naming

Conclusion

Chapter 3

Theorising racism and ethnicity: foundations

Introduction

Pioneer of race theory: Anna Julia Cooper's account of racism and intersectionality

Pioneer of ethnicity theory: Max Weber's account of the 'race-ethnicity-nation' complex

Pioneer of race relations theory: Robert Park and the Chicago School

Building on the pioneers: The emergence of the British sociology of race relations

Conclusion

Chapter 4

Understanding ethnicity: theoretical and conceptual debates

Introduction

Ethnicity: concepts, approaches and relations

Ethnicity in the UK

Researching ethnicity

Chapter 5

Racism, ethnicity and migration: building a global analysis

Introduction

Migration

Approaches to an integrated analysis of migration, racism and ethnicity

Conclusion

Chapter 6

Racist violence and racism reduction

Introduction

Explanations and motives

Evidence

Racism reduction

Conclusion

Chapter 7

Exclusion and discrimination: Europe and the Roma

Introduction

Understanding discrimination

Racial and ethnic discrimination and exclusion in Europe

Exclusion and discrimination in housing: evidence from Western Europe

Exclusion and discrimination in education: the Roma

Social exclusion of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK and political mobilisation in the UK and Europe

Conclusion

Chapter 8

Representing racism, ethnicity and migration in news media

Introduction

Back to fundamentals: conceptualising media racism

Race and media in Russia

Race and media in the US

Race and media in Europe

Conclusion

Chapter 9

Prospects for a post-ethnic, post-racial world

Introduction

Post-thinking

Minorities

The global racial crisis

Conclusion