1st Edition

Racism, Governance, and Public Policy Beyond Human Rights

By Katy Sian, Ian Law, S. Sayyid Copyright 2013
172 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive construction of Muslims in three contexts: the workplace, education and the media. Informed by a... Read more

1. The Raciality of the Post-Racial: The European Racial Crisis and the Need for a Fundamental Change  2. The Semantics of Antiracism and Tolerance  3. The Limits of Human Rights: Questions of Racial Justice  4. The Limits of Anti-Discrimination: Muslims and the Workplace  5. The Dangers of Separatism: Muslims in Education  6. The Limits of Representation: Muslims and the News Media  7. Reframing Racism: A New Agenda

Biography

Ian Law is Professor in Racism and Ethnicity Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds and founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies.

S. Sayyid is the Director of the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding, at the University of South Australia, and a Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.

Katy P. Sian is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.