The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies
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The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

  1. 560 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

About this book

"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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. 1 Introduction: Situating Race and Ethnic Studies
  6. PART I - Locating the Field:Theoretical and Historical Foundations
  7. Introduction
  8. 2 Theorising Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Paradigms and Perspectives
  9. 3 Studying ‘Race’ and Ethnicity:Dominant and Marginalised Discourses in the Critical North American Case
  10. 4 Researching Race and Ethnicity: Methodological Issues
  11. 5 The Spirit Lives On: Races and Disciplines
  12. PART II - Race, Ethnicity and Social Hierarchy
  13. Introduction
  14. 6 Racism, Class and the Dialectics of Social Transformation
  15. 7 The Nexus of Race and Gender: Parallels, Linkages, and Divergences in Race and Gender Studies
  16. 8 Ethnicities and Sexualities
  17. 9 Nation and Post-Nation:Nationalism, Transnationalism and Intersections of Belonging
  18. PART III - The Social Organisation of Race and Ethnicity
  19. Introduction
  20. 10 Multiculturalism and Racial Democracy: State Policies and Social Practices
  21. 11 Law, Critical Race Theory and Related Scholarship
  22. 12 Ethnic Conflict
  23. 13 Globalisation, Migration and Citizenship
  24. PART IV - Debates and New Initiatives
  25. Introduction
  26. 14 The Family as a Race Institution
  27. 15 Race, Ethnicity and Education:The Search for Explanations
  28. 16 Still the ‘Most Segregated Hour’: Religion, Race and the American Experience
  29. 17 Whiteness in the Dramaturgy of Racism
  30. 18 No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Political Mobilisation
  31. 19 Diaspora and Hybridity
  32. 20 Issues for the Twenty-fi rst Century
  33. Index