History of Race & Ethnicity Books

New and Published Books

1. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

   By Jennifer Snow

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

   Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community

   By Vrushali Patil

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970

   We are the Supermen

   By Malinda Alaine Lindquist

   Series: Routledge Studies in African American History

   Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities

   Visible and Invisible Muslims

   Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft, Jørgen Nielsen

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Theorising Integration and Assimilation

   Edited by Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Theorising Integration and Assimilation discusses the current theories of integration and assimilation, particularly those focused on the native-born children of immigrants, the second generation. Using empirical research to challenge many of the dominant perspectives on the assimilation of...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism brings together a range of scholarly research papers to examine the place of international migration in the modern world, starting with the overview of migration and development by Alejandro Portes. There are many aspects to migration today which are treated...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
8. Gender, Race and Religion

   Intersections and Challenges

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Gender, Race and Religion brings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studies that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. Nationalism and National Identities

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countries dealing both with theories and case studies of particular national contexts. Taken together, these papers shed light on the processes through which...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Latino Identity in Contemporary America

    Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This edited collection brings together original research papers that explore an important aspect of race and ethnic studies, namely the processes that are shaping the making of Latina and Latino identities in contemporary America. This is a question that has received much attention in the USA over...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge