The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

Patricia Hill Collins, John Solomos, Patricia Hill Collins, John Solomos

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781446248355
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sozialwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Diskriminierung & Rassenbeziehungen

" 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction: Situating Race and Ethnic Studies
• PART I - Locating the Field:Theoretical and Historical Foundations
• Introduction
• 2 Theorising Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Paradigms and Perspectives
• 3 Studying ‘Race’ and Ethnicity:Dominant and Marginalised Discourses in the Critical North American Case
• 4 Researching Race and Ethnicity: Methodological Issues
• 5 The Spirit Lives On: Races and Disciplines
• PART II - Race, Ethnicity and Social Hierarchy
• Introduction
• 6 Racism, Class and the Dialectics of Social Transformation
• 7 The Nexus of Race and Gender: Parallels, Linkages, and Divergences in Race and Gender Studies
• 8 Ethnicities and Sexualities
• 9 Nation and Post-Nation:Nationalism, Transnationalism and Intersections of Belonging
• PART III - The Social Organisation of Race and Ethnicity
• Introduction
• 10 Multiculturalism and Racial Democracy: State Policies and Social Practices
• 11 Law, Critical Race Theory and Related Scholarship
• 12 Ethnic Conflict
• 13 Globalisation, Migration and Citizenship
• PART IV - Debates and New Initiatives
• Introduction
• 14 The Family as a Race Institution
• 15 Race, Ethnicity and Education:The Search for Explanations
• 16 Still the ‘Most Segregated Hour’: Religion, Race and the American Experience
• 17 Whiteness in the Dramaturgy of Racism
• 18 No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Political Mobilisation
• 19 Diaspora and Hybridity
• 20 Issues for the Twenty-fi rst Century
• Index