Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities (Sociology and Social Change) - Softcover

MAC AN GHAILL

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335196721 ISBN 13: 9780335196722

Publisher: Open University Press, 1999

Synopsis

* How are we to understand race, ethnicity and racism?
* In what ways can racism and racist practices be resisted?
* How do we learn to live with difference?

Questions of migration, nation and ethnic belonging are of major symbolic significance to Western 'post-colonial' societies in uncertain times. The main focus of this book is the interrelationship of changing representations of race, ethnicity and racism with wider socio-economic, political and cultural transformations. Rapid changes in the politics of race across a wide range of societies imply there is a need to go beyond the fixed boundaries of the anti-racist black-white dualistic model of racism. Within the context of the fragmentation of social relations attributed to globalising processes, the author examines earlier class-based explanations of racial difference alongside new approaches that take modernity and post-modernity as frameworks for analysis.

About this title

Synopsis

Questions of migration, national and ethnic belonging are of major symbolic significance to Western "post-colonial" societies in uncertain times. The main focus of this text is the interrelationship of changing representations of race, ethnicity and racism with wider socio-economic, political and cultural transformations. Rapid changes in the politics of race across a wide range of societies imply there is a need to go beyond the fixed boundaries of the anti-racist black-white dualistic model of racism. Within the context of the fragmentation of social relations attributed to globalizing processes, the author examines earlier class-based explanations of racial difference alongside new approaches that take modernity and post-modernity as frameworks for analysis.

About the Author

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill is the author of The Making of Men (1994) and the editor of Understanding Masculinities (1996), both published by Open University Press. He teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335196721
• ISBN 13: 9780335196722
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192