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List of contents
Introduction: Why do we still talk about race today? 1. Ethnic and Racial Studies: an outline history of forty years of publishing the research agenda on ethnic and racial issues 2. Breaking black: the death of ethnic and racial studies in Britain 3. Kaleidoscope: contested identities and new forms of race membership 4. Comparing genomic narratives of human diversity in Latin American nations 5. Unsettled identities amid settled classifications? Toward a sociology of racial appraisals 6. Race in an era of mass migration: black migrants in Europe and the United States 7. Why we still need to talk about race 8. Local communities of artistic practices and the slow emergence of a "post-racial" generation 9. "Race" and "post-colonialism": should one come before the other? 10. Theorizing visibility and vulnerability in Black Europe and the African diaspora
About the author
Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author and editor of many books.
John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His most recent books are Race, Multiculture and Social Policy (with Alice Bloch and Sarah Neal, 2013) and Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives (with Karim Murji, 2014).
Summary
This book provides an insight into key facets of contemporary research and scholarship on race and ethnicity, providing an overview of the shifting boundaries of the field. The volume combines conceptual reflection with empirically focused analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
