1st Edition

Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms

Edited By John Solomos Copyright 2020
488 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

The study of contemporary forms of racism has expanded greatly over the past four decades. Although it has been a focus for scholarship and research for the past three centuries, it is perhaps over this more recent period that we have seen important transformations in the analytical frames and methods to explore the changing patterns of contemporary racisms. The Routledge International Handbook... Read more

Introduction to the Handbook
John Solomos

Part I: Theories and Histories

Introduction to Part I

1. Systemic Racism and the White Racial Frame
Sean Elias, Joe R. Feagin

2. Beyond Racisms versus Cultural Studies: Critical Theories of Racism and Political Action from Migrant Workers to Black Lives Matter
Zacharias Zoubir and Karim Murji

3. Conceptualising Cities and Migrant Ethnicity: The Lessons of Chinese London
Laura Henneke and Caroline Knowles

Part II: Contemporary Racisms in Global Perspective

Introduction to Part II

4. Whitening Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Documentation Status as Brightened Boundaries of Exclusion in the U.S. and Europe
Tiffany Joseph

5. Race and Racisms: Why and How to Compare?
Graziella Moraes Silva

6. Latin American Racisms in Global Perspective
Peter Wade

7. Hostility to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Tony Kushner

Part III: Racism and the State

Introduction to Part III

8. The Racial State
Charles W. Mills

9. Blackness Everywhere: How the State Maintains and Manifests Racialized Power
Marcus Hunter

10. Cui Bono? Linking Political and Racial Orders
David Cook-Martín

11. "Re-Whitening" Non-White Spaces Through Colorblind Narratives
Charles Gallagher

Part IV: Racist Movements and Ideologies

Introduction to Part IV

12. Racist Movements, the Far Right and Mainstreaming
Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter

13. The Language of Walls-Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Racialization of Space
Ruth Wodak

14. The White Supremacist Movement in the U.S. Through the Lens of the Matrix of Race
Abby L. Ferber

Part V: Anti-Racisms

Introduction to Part V

15. Anti-Racism as Method
Manuela Bojadžijev

16. Contemporary Anti-Racism: A Review of Effective Practice
Jehonathan Ben, David Kelly, Yin Paradies

17. Anti-Racism and Everyday Life
Kristine Aquino

18. Formulating a Theory in Anti-Racism Activism
Rashawn Ray and Genesis Fuentes

Part VI: Racism and Nationalism

Introduction to Part VI

19. Nationalism and Racism: The Racial Politics of Non-Belonging, Bordering and Disposable Humanities
Sivamohan Valluvan

20. Distinctions, Dilemmas and Dangers: Sociological Approaches to Race and Nationalism
Matthew W. Hughey and Michael L. Rosino

21. Nationalism, Postcolonial Criticism and the State
Charles Leddy-Owen

22. Racism, Nationalism and the Politics of Resentment in Contemporary England
James Rhodes and Natalie-Anne Hall

Part VII: Intersections of Race and Gender

Introduction to Part VII

23. Intersections of Race and Gender
Umut Erel

24. ‘We’ve Joined the Table but We’re Still on the Menu’: Clickbaiting Diversity in Today’s University
Sirma Bilge

25. Racial Discrimination in the Name of Women’s Rights: On Contemporary Racism in Sweden
Minoo Alinia

26. Gendered Racializations: Producing Subordinate Immigrant Subjects, Discrimination, and Oppressive Feminist and Queer Politics
Anna Korteweg

27. Racial States - Gendered Nations: On Biopower, Race, and Sex
Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar

Part VIII: Racism, Culture and Religion

Introduction to Part VIII

28. Modernity, Race and Religion
Nasar Meer

29. Religious Otherness: Defining Boundaries of Contemporary Racism
Riva Kastoryano

Part IX: Methods of Studying Contemporary Racisms

Introduction to Part IX

30. Same Difference? Researching Racism and Immigration
Yasmin Gunaratnam and Hannah Jones

31. Researching Racisms, Researching Multiculture – Challenges and Changes to Research Methods
Sarah Neal

Part X: The End of Racism?

Introduction to Part X

32. Metamorphoses of Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Racism Today
Michel Wieviorka

33. The Beginning and the End of Racism –And Something In-Between
Kevin Durrheim

34. Humiliation, Dehumanization and the Quest for Dignity: Researching Beyond Racism
Philomena Essed

Biography

John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has researched and published on questions about theories of race and racism, race in British society, multiculturalism and anti-discrimination policies, and on migration and social movements. He is co-editor of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies and General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.

"At a time when contemporary understandings of racism are increasingly varied and contested, these contributions by world-leading scholars provide not only a foundational base, but also the key lines of debate."

Miri Song, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, UK