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...