This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of 'race', and that the ambiguities of perceiving 'race' in the region's past and present in fact have complex historical roots.

Introduction: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region?
1 Popular music and the 'cultural archive'
2 Histories of ethnicity, nation and migration
3 Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism
4 Postsocialism, borders, security and race after Yugoslavia
Conclusion
Index

Catherine Baker is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Hull, UK.