Theories of Race and Racism ─ A Reader

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader is an important and innovative collection that brings together extracts from the work of scholars, both established and up and coming, who have helped to shape the study of race and racism as an historical and contemporary phenomenon.
This second edition incorporates new contributions and editorial material and allows readers to explore the changing terms of debates about the nature of race and racism in contemporary societies. All six parts are organized around the contributions made by theorists whose work has been influential in shaping theoretical debates. The various contributions have been chosen to reflect different theoretical perspectives and to help readers gain a feel for the changing terms of theoretical debate over time. As well as covering the main concerns of past and recent theoretical debates it provides a glimpse of relatively new areas of interest that are likely to attract more attention in years to come.

Les back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His primary research interests focus on the culture of racism with particular reference to social identity and popular culture.
John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at City University, London. He has researched and written widely on aspects of race and ethnic relations, the politics of race, equal opportunity policies, race and football, and racist movements and ideas.

Part One: Origins and Transformations 1. First impressions, Winthrop D. Jordan 2. The Idiom of Race, Michael Banton 3. Race and Racism, Tzvetan Todorov 4. Race Relations, Oliver C. Cox 5. Who Invented the Concept of Race? Robert Bernasconi 6. The Conservations of Races, W.E.B. Du Bois 7. Racial Beliefs in Americ, Gunnar Myrdal 8. Racism and Difference, Albert Memmi 9. On Antiracism, Pierre-Andre Taguieff Part 2: Sociology, Race and Social Theory 10. The Nature of Race Relations, Robert Park 11. Race Relations in Sociological Theory, John Rex 12. Apropos the Idea of ‘Race’…Again, Robert Miles 13. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities, Stuart Hall 14. Beyond Black, Claire Alexander 15. Racial Knowledge, David Theo Goldberg Part 3: Racism and Anti-Semitism 16. The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth, George L. Mosse 17. Elements of Anti-Semitism, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer 18. Modernity, Racism, Extermination, Zygmunt Bauman 19. Are Jews White? Sander L. Gilman 20. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews, Mathew F. Jacobson Part 4: Colonialism, Race and the Other 21. The Fact of Blackness, Frantz Fanon 22. Imperial Culture, Lola Young 23. The White Family of Man, Anne McClintock 24. Under Western Eyes, Chandra Talpade Mohanty 25. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers, Ann Laura Stoler 26. Race, Time and the Revision of Modernity, Homi Bhabha Part 5: Feminism, Difference and Identity 27. White Woman Listen! Hazel V. Carby 28. Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins 29. Third Wave Black Feminism? Kimberly Springer 30. Race and Rights, Patricia J. Williams 31. Difference, Diversity, Differentiation, Avtar Brah 32. White Women, Race Matters, Ruth Frankenberg 33. You’re Calling Me a Racist? Sarita Srivastava Part 6: Changing Boundaries and Spaces 34. The Dialectics of Diasporic Identification, Paul Gilroy 35. Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics, Kobena Mercer 36. All About Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness, David R. Roediger 37. Crenshaw Race, Reform and Retrenchment, Kimberlé Williams 38. America Again at the Crossroads, Stephen Steinberg 39. Racial Trends in the United States, Jennifer L. Hochschild 40. From Bi-Racial to Tri-Racial, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 41. Racial Identity and Racial Identification, K. Anthony Appiah 42. Race and Racism, Howard Winant Guide to Further Reading Key Questions