Includes indexes.

Series Editor Preface

Introduction: Theorising Race and Racism / Les Back and John Solomon

Part One: ORIGINS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

1. First Impressions / Winthrop Jordan

2. The Idiom of Race / Michael Banton

3. Race and Racism / Tzvetan Todorov

4. Race Relations / Oliver Cox

5. The Conservation of Races / W.E.B. Du Bois

6. Racial Beliefs in America / Gunnar Myrdal

Part Two: SOCIOLOGY, RACE AND SOCIAL THEORY

7. The Nature of Race Relations / Robert Park

8. Race: What It Is Not / Ruth Benedict

9. Race Relations in Sociological Theory / John Rex

10. A propos the Idea of “Race”... Again / Robert Miles

11. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall

12. Racial Knowledge / David Theo Goldberg

13. The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race / Howard Winant

Part Three: RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM

14. The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth / George Mosse

15. Elements of Anti-Semitism / Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer

16. Modernity, Racism, Extermination / Zygmunt Bauman

17. Are Jews White? / Sander Gilman

18. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews / Matthew Jacobson

Part Four: COLONIALISM, RACE AND THE OTHER

19. The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon

20. Imperial Culture / Lola Young

21. The White Family Man / Anne McClintock

22. Under Western Eyes / Chandra Talpade Mohanty

23. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers / Ann Stoler

24. “Race” Time and the Revision of Modernity / Homi Bhabha

Part Five: FEMINISM, DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY

25. Racism and Feminism / Bell Hooks

26. White Woman Listen! / Hazel Carby

27. Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins

28. Race and Rights / Patricia Williams

29. Difference, Diversity, Differentiation / Avatar Brah

30. White Woman, Race Matters / Ruth Frankenberg

31. Black Feminism and the Academy / Barbara Christian

Part Six: CHANGING BOUNDARIES AND SPACES

32. Black Skin/White Boards / Gargi Bhattacharyya

33. The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification / Paul Gilroy

34. Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics / Kobena Mercer

35. Identity and the Spaces of Authenticity / Michael Keith

36. The Matter of Whiteness / Richard Dyer

37. Race, Reform and Retrenchment / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

38. America Again at the Crossroads / Stephen Steinberg

39. The Lore of the Homeland: Hindu Nationalism and Indigenist “Neoracism” / Chetan Bhatt

40. Enjoy Your Nation as Yourself / Slavoj Zizek

41. Racial Identity and Racial Identification / Anthony Appiah

Guide to Further Reading

Name index

Subject index

"This comprehensive reader brings together foundational work in the study of race and ethnicity and writings from many of the most exciting scholars today. It is divided into main sections: Origins and Transformations; Sociology, Race and Social Theory; Racism and Anti-Semitism; Colonialism, Race and the Other; Feminism, Difference and Identity; Changing Boundaries and Spaces. Each section begins with a brief editorial introduction, providing a guide to the reading in that section by historically contextualising them and relating them to other writings in the reader. Cross-national in content, historical in scope and offering a variety of perspectives, Theories of Race and Racism will prove an invaluable resource for undergraduates across a range of disciplines." (Book Cover)