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