Full Description
The main objective of this edited collection is to provide an insight into key facets of contemporary research and scholarship on race and ethnicity. The various chapters were presented at a conference to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the international journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. Given this context, contributors reflect on the evolution of scholarship over the past five decades, and look forward to the range of issues that we shall need to research and understand more fully in the future. In doing so they both provide an overview of the shifting boundaries of the field of ethnic and racial studies and display an engagement with emerging fields of scholarship and research.
The volume brings together leading scholars who have experience of researching race and ethnicity in various parts of the globe, and combines conceptual reflection with empirically focused analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Contents
Introduction: Why do we still talk about race today? 1. Ethnic and Racial Studies: an outline history of forty years of publishing the research agenda on ethnic and racial issues 2. Breaking black: the death of ethnic and racial studies in Britain 3. Kaleidoscope: contested identities and new forms of race membership 4. Comparing genomic narratives of human diversity in Latin American nations 5. Unsettled identities amid settled classifications? Toward a sociology of racial appraisals 6. Race in an era of mass migration: black migrants in Europe and the United States 7. Why we still need to talk about race 8. Local communities of artistic practices and the slow emergence of a "post-racial" generation 9. "Race" and "post-colonialism": should one come before the other? 10. Theorizing visibility and vulnerability in Black Europe and the African diaspora
