Theories of Race and Racism

<p><em>Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader</em> provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital and ever-evolving field of scholarship and research. Combining contributions from seminal thinkers, leading scholars and emergent voices, this reader provides a critical reflection on key trends and developments in the field.</p><p>The contributions to this reader provide an overview of key areas of scholarship and research on questions of race and racism. It provides a novel perspective by bringing together readings on the key theoretical and historical processes in this area, the development of diverse theoretical viewpoints, the analysis of antisemitism, the role of colonialism and postcolonialism, feminist perspectives on race and the articulation of new accounts of the contemporary conjuncture. The contributions to this reader include classic works by the likes of W.E.B. DuBois, Stuart Hall and Frantz Fanon as well as timely pieces by contemporary scholars including Orlando Patterson, Patricia Hill Collins and Paul Gilroy.</p><p>By bringing together a broad range of diverse accounts, <i>Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader</i> engages with various key areas of interest and is an invaluable guide for students and instructors seeking to explore issues of race and racism.</p> <p><strong>Part One: Origins and Transformations </strong>Introduction 1. Winthrop D. Jordan <i>First Impressions</i> 2. Robert Bernasconi <i>Who Invented the Concept of Race?</i> 3. W. E. B. Du Bois <i>The Conservation of Races</i> 4. Orlando Patterson <i>The Denial of Slavery in Contemporary American Sociology </i>5. Satnam Virdee <i>Racialized Capitalism</i> 6. Zine Magubane <i>American Sociology’s Racial Ontology </i>7. Jacqueline Nassy Brown <i>Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space</i> 8. Catherine Hall <i>Doing Reparatory History</i> <b>Part Two: Sociology, Race and Social Theory </b>Introduction 9. Robert Park <i>The Nature of Race Relations</i> 10. E. Franklin Frazier <i>Sociological Theory and Race Relations</i> 11. Jose Itzigsohn and Karida Brown <i>Sociology and the Theory of Double Consciousness </i>12. Aldon D. Morris <i>W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center</i> 13. Gurminder K. Bhambra <i>Race, Segregation and U.S. Sociology</i> 14. Stuart Hall <i>Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities </i>15. Brett St Louis <i>On the Necessity and the ‘Impossibility’ of Identities </i>16. Salman Sayyid <i>Post-racial Paradoxes</i> 17. Graziella Moraes Silva <i>Folk Conceptualizations<b> </b>of Racism and Antiracism in Brazil and South Africa </i>18. Wendy D. Roth <i>The Multiple Dimensions of Race</i> 19. Ann Morning <i>Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership </i>20. Elijah Anderson <i>The White Space</i> 21. Claire Alexander <i>Breaking Black</i> <b>Part Three: Racism and Antisemitism </b>Introduction 22. George L. Mosse <i>The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth</i> 23. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer <i>Elements of Anti-Semitism </i>24. Dan Stone <i>Not a Race but Only a People after All</i> 25. Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine <i>Reconnecting the<b> </b>Study of Racism and Antisemitism</i> 26. Nasar Meer and Tehseen Noorani <i>A Sociological Comparison of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Britain</i> 27. Jonathan Judaken <i>Rethinking the New Antisemitism in a Global Age</i> 28. Brian Klug <i>Interrogating New Anti-Semitism</i> 29. Tony Kushner <i>Anti-Semitism in Britain</i> 30. Elli Tikvah Sarah <i>When Anti-Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism and Zionism Becomes Anti-Palestinian</i> <b>Part Four: Colonialism, Race and the Other </b>Introduction 31. Frantz Fanon <i>The Fact of Blackness </i>32. Gary Wilder <i>Race, Reason, Impasse</i> 33. Cynthia R. Nielsen <i>Frantz Fanon and the Négritude Movement</i> 34. Mahmood Mamdani <i>Settler Colonialism</i> 35. George Steinmetz <i>Explaining the Colonial State and Colonial Sociology</i> 36. Robbie Shilliam <i>Ethiopianism, Englishness, Britishness</i> 37. Julian Go <i>Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race</i> <b>Part Five: Feminism, Difference, and Identity </b>Introduction 38. Patricia Hill Collins <i>Black Feminist Thought</i> 39. Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Leslie McCall <i>Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies </i>40. Ochy Curiel <i>Rethinking Radical Anti-Racist Feminist Politics</i> 41. Heidi Safia Mirza and Yasmin Gunaratnam <i>Reflections on Black British Feminism</i> 42. Sara Ahmed <i>Women of Colour as Diversity Workers</i> 43. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry <i>Geographies of Power: Black Women Mobilizing Intersectionality in Brazil</i> 44. Nadia Brown <i>Political Participation of Women of Color</i> 45. Sara Salem <i>Intersectionality and its Discontents</i> <b>Part Six: Changing Boundaries and Spaces </b>Introduction 46. Paul Gilroy <i>The Dialectics of Diasporic Identification </i> 47. Michael G. Hanchard <i>Black Transnationalism, Africana Studies, and the 21st Century </i>48. Juliet Hooker <i>Black Protest/White Grievance </i>49. Minkah Makalani <i>Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics</i> 50. Alondra Nelson <i>The Social Life of DNA</i> 51. Sibille Merz and Ros Williams <i>Valuing Racialised Bodies in the Neoliberal Bioeconomy </i>52. Étienne Balibar <i>Reinventing the Stranger</i> 53. Jean Beaman <i>Are French People White?</i> 54. Michelle Christian, Louise Seamster and Victor Ray <i>New Directions in Critical Race Theory and Sociology </i>55. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva <em>What Makes Systemic Racism Systemic?</em></p>