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List of contents
1. Introduction: Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges Martin Bulmer and John Solomos 2. Islam, Gender, and Immigrant Integration: Boundary Drawing in Discourses of Honour Killing in the Netherlands and Germany Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul 3. You’re Brazilian, Right: What Kind of Brazilian are You? The Racialization of Brazilian Immigrant Women Judith McDonnell and Cileine De Lourenço 4. Cigar Production: How, Race, Gender and Political Ideology Were Inscribed Onto Tobacco Gabriela Sandoval 5. Religiosity and Gender Equality: Comparing Natives and Muslim Migrants in Germany Claudia Diehl, Mathias Koenig and Kerstin Ruckdeschel 6. Suicidal Behaviour of Young Immigrant Women in the Netherlands: Can We Use Durkheim’s Concept of ‘Fatalistic Suicide’ to Explain their High Incidence of Attempted Suicide Diana Van Bergen, Johannes M. Smit, Anton J.L.M. Van Balkon and Sawitri Suharso 7. Marriage in Colour: Race, Religion and Spouse Selection in Four American Mosques Zareena A. Grewal 8. Why Do Bilingual Boys Get Better Grades in English-only America? The Impacts of Gender, Language and Family Interaction on Academic Achievement of Latino/a Children of Immigrants Amy Lutz and Stephanie Crist 9. What is the Meaning of ‘Black’: Researching ‘Black’ Respondents Uvanney Maylor
About the author
Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He retired in 2008, prior to which he was also Director of the ESRC Question Bank. He has edited the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies since 1993.
John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at City University London, UK. He has carried out extensive research on race, politics and social change and on theories of race and ethnicity. He is co-editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Summary
This book brings together a selection of original papers that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
