In recent years, race and ethnicity have been the focus of theoretical, political, and policy debates. This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization. Contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Aronowitz, and Collette Guillaumin.

In recent years, race and ethnicity have been the focus of theoretical, political, and policy debates. This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization. Contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Aronowitz, and Collette Guillaumin.

This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity.

• Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.
  
• Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.
  
• Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
  
• Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa...

This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity.

• Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.
  
• Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.
  
• Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
  
• Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa...

This book is concerned with the government of -illegal- immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.

• Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about and constructed -illegal- immigration as an ethical problem.
  
• Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
  
• Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source...

Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade's finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated.

• Provides a rich introduction to the subject
  
• Grounds the study of globalization ethnographically by locating global processes in everyday practice
  
• Addresses the global flow of capital, people, commodities,...

In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations most afflicted by a range of illnesses are racialized minorities. The solutions generally proposed to the problem of racial health disparities have been social and environmental in nature, but in the wake of the mapping of the human genome, genetic thinking has come to have considerable influence on how such inequalities are problematized. Racial...