Racism

ISBN-13: 9780415296779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str.

Robert Miles

Opis

Racism is as pertinent an issue today as it was in the 1980s. This fully updated new edition of Racism provides a thought-provoking account of the history and debate about the concept. Combining historical and theoretical analysis, it surveys the history of the ways in which European peoples have described and experienced non-Europeans, and summarizes the emergence and evolution of the concept of racism within the Western sociological tradition. This edition brings the book up-to-date by looking at examples such as the war in the former Yugoslavia and the cases of Stephen Lawrence and Rodney King, and by considering Islamophobia in Western societies. This book should be useful reading for students studying racism or ethnicity in sociology, anthropology and politics.

Spis treści

Part 1: Situating Racism 1. Introduction 2. Representations of the Other Part 2: Conceptualising Racism 3. The Unity of Racism: A critique of conceptual inflation 4. The Diversity of Racism: A critique of conceptual deflation 5. On Signification Part 3: Contextualising Racism 6. Racism and Class Relations 7. Racism, the Nation State and Globalisation

O autorze

Robert Miles is the Director of Study Abroad and Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Malcolm Brown is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter.