Ethnic and Racial Studies Today.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulmer, Martin.

Contributor:

Solomos, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Study and teaching.

Race relations.

Ethnicity--Study and teaching.

Ethnicity.

Minorities--Study and teaching.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This important collection addresses recent developments in the teaching, studying and presentation of race across many disciplines, including sociology, politics, social geography, cultural studies and philosophy.Drawing on the latest research in all these areas, the authors provide a comprehensive account of key controversies and debates and pinpoint new directions in research and scholarship that are likely to shape the study of race and ethnicity well into the next century.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The continuing significance of race? Teaching ethnic and racial studies in sociology; 2 Philosophy and racial identity; 3 The symbolic empire and the history of racial inequality; 4 The historiography of immigrants and ethnic minorities: Britain compared with the USA; 5 Teaching race in cultural studies: a ten-step programme of personal development; 6 Ethnicity etcetera: social anthropological points of view; 7 'Race' in psychology: teaching the subject

8 Political science encounters 'race' and 'ethnicity'9 'The approval of Headquarters': race and ethnicity in English studies; 10 Constructions of 'race', place and discipline: geographies of 'racial' identity and racism; 11 Peopling the past: approaches to 'race' and ethnicity in archaeology; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-136-28380-3

1-315-00847-5

9781315008479

OCLC:

70763377