The SAGE handbook of race and ethnic studies

Solomos, John, (editor). Hill Collins, Patricia, (editor).

Summary: "What is the state of Race and Ethnic Studies today? How has the field emerged? What are the core concepts, debates and issues?The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is a vital resource for researchers and students with a panoramic, critical survey of the field. It is a rigorous, focused examination of the central questions in the field today. The text examines:The roots of the field of race and ethnic studiesThe distinction between race and ethnicity Methodological issues facing researchersThe relationship between the field and more established disciplinesIntersections between race and ethnicity and questions sexuality, gender, nation and social transformationThe challenge of multiculturalismRace, ethnicity and globalizationRace and the familyRace and educationRace and religionIssues for the 21st CenturyPlanned and edited by a distinguished team of Anglo-American scholars, the Handbook pools an impressive range of international world class expertise and insight. It provides a landmark work in the field which will be the measure of debate and research for years to come."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780761942207 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 542 pages ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Los Angeles ; SAGE, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Situating race and ethnic studies / Patricia Hill Collins and John Solomos -- Theorising race and ethnicity : contemporary paradigms and perspectives / Caroline Knowles -- Studying 'race' and ethnicity : dominant and marginalised discourses in the critical North American case / Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien -- Researching race and ethnicity : methodological issues / Nancy A. Denton and Glenn D. Deane -- The spirit lives on : races and disciplines / Chetan Bhatt -- Racism, class and the dialectics of social transformation / Satnam Virdee -- The nexus of race and gender : parallels, linkages, and divergences in race and gender studies / Margaret L. Andersen -- Ethnicities and sexualities / Joane Nagel -- Nation and post-nation : nationalism, transnationalism and intersections of belonging / Floya Anthias -- Multiculturalism and racial democracy : state policies and social practices / Peter Kivisto -- Law, critical race theory and related scholarship / Athena D. Mutua -- Ethnic conflict / Ralph Premdas -- Globalisation, migration and citizenship / Liza Schuster -- The family as a race institution / Maxine Baca Zinn -- Race, ethnicity and education : the search for explanations / James A. Banks and Caryn Park -- Still the 'most segregated hour' : religion, race and the American experience / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Whiteness in the dramaturgy of racism / Les Back -- No longer invisible : Afro-Latin political mobilisation / Michael G. Hanchard and Mark Q. Sawyer -- Diaspora and hybridity / Claire Alexander -- Issues for the twenty-first century / Patricia Hill Collins and John Solomos.