’The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is one of the best handbooks outlining the latest thinking on race and ethnic studies published in recent years…The breadth of themes and the depth of discussion are ambitious, offering the reader an A-Z guide of contemporary thinking on race and ethnicity…a valuable resource for scholars and activists alike.’
– Runnymede Bulletin
What is the state of race and ethnic studies today? How has the field emerged? What are the core concepts, debates and issues? This panoramic, critical survey of the field supplies researchers and students with a vital resource. It is a rigorous, focused examination of the central questions in the field today. The text examines:
- The roots of the field of race and ethnic studies.
- The distinction between race and ethnicity.
- Methodological issues facing researchers.
- Intersections between race and ethnicity and questions of sexuality, gender, nation and social transformation.
- The challenge of multiculturalism.
- Race, ethnicity and globalization.
- Race and the family.
- Race and education.
- Race and religion.
Planned and edited by a distinguished team of Anglo-American scholars, the Handbook pools an impressive range of international world class expertise and insight. It provides a landmark work in the field which will be the measure of debate and research for years to come.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Situating Race and Ethnic Studies – Patricia Hill Collins & John SolomosPART ONE: LOCATING THE FIELD: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
Theorizing Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Paradigms and Perspectives – Caroline Knowles
Studying ′Race′ and Ethnicity: Dominant and Marginalised Discourses in the Critical North American Case – Joe R. Feagin & Eileen O′Brien
Researching Race and Ethnicity: Methodological Issues – Nancy A. Denton & Glenn D. Deane
The Spirit Lives On: Races and Disciplines – Chetan Bhatt
PART TWO: RACE, ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL HIERARCHY
Racism, Class and the Dialectics of Social Transformation – Satnam Virdee
The Nexus of Race and Gender: Parallels, Linkages, and Divergences in Race and Gender Studies – Margaret L. Andersen
Ethnicities and Sexualities – Joane Nagel
Nation and Post-Nation: Nationalism, Transnationalism and Intersections of Belonging – Floya Anthias
PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
Multiculturalism and Racial Democracy: State Policies and Social Practices – Peter Kivisto
Law, Critical Race Theory, and Related Scholarship – Athena D. Mutua
Ethnic Conflict – Ralph Premdas
Globalization, Migration and Citizenship – Liza Schuster
PART FOUR: DEBATES AND NEW INITIATIVES
The Family as a Race Institution – Maxine Baca Zinn
Race, Ethnicity and Education: The Search for Explanations – James A. Banks & Caryn Park
Still the ′Most Segregated Hour′: Religion, Race and the American Experience – Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Whiteness in the Dramaturgy of Racism – Les Back
No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Political Mobilisation – Michael G. Hanchard & Mark Q. Sawyer
Diaspora and Hybridity – Claire Alexander
Issues for the 21st Century – Patricia Hill Collins & John Solomos
Om författaren
John Solomos is a professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.His teaching is focused on the sociology of race and racism, sociological theory, human rights and social theory, qualitative research methods and multiculturalism and citizenship.
He has supervised a wide range of Ph D students in both his own areas of research interest and in other fields of sociology. He welcomes the opportunity to work with Ph D students and is interested to receive informal inquiries from prospective research students. He is currently supervising students working on a range of issues, including migration and refugees, minority families and social capital, Turkish-speaking youth in London and Cuban music and popular culture.
He serves on the Strategic Research Board of the Economic and Social Research Council. He is also joint editor with Martin Bulmer of the international journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, published 12 times a year by Routledge.
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