Race & Ethnic Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Changing Gay Male Identities

   By Andrew Cooper

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. National Myths

   Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

   Edited by Gérard Bouchard

   National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Afro-Nordic Landscapes

   Engaging Blackness in Northern Europe

   Edited by Michael McEachrane

   Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

   This volume examines the growing presence of Africans in Northern Europe in relation to national narratives, racism, and the African Diaspora, mapping the emerging multicultural realities of Europe....

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990–2000

   By Michael E Martin

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Race, Philosophy, and Film

   Edited by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Dan Flory

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from its margins to the center? The collection’s contributors anchor their discussions of race...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity

   The Challenge of Enumeration

   Edited by Patrick Simon, Victor Piché

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate. Every country had been affected by what is commonly known as cultural pluralism, as a result of conflicts interpreted from an ethnic perspective, for instance, in the Balkans and central Africa; nationalist...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Media Bias in Reporting Social Research?

   The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education

   By Martyn Hammersley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. 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 March 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Archives of the Black Atlantic

   Reading Between Literature and History

   By Wendy W. Walters

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

    Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

    On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge