Race & Ethnicity Books

New and Published Books

1. Bilingual Pre-Teens

   Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

   By Janet M. Fuller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Black American Cinema

   Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

   Edited by Mia Mask

   Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies,...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India

   Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

   By Adrian Carton

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity,...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Race, Racism and Sports Journalism

   By Neil Farrington, Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Amir Saeed

   Beginning with a theoretical discussion of race, sport and media, this book critically examines issues of race, racism and sports journalism and offers practical advice on sports reporting, including a discussion of guidelines for ethical journalism. In a series of case studies, representations of...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Seeing Differently

   A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

   By Amelia Jones

   Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

   By Amos Morris-Reich

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. Amazonian Geographies

   Emerging Identities and Landscapes

   Edited by Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink

   Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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