Race and Racialization: Essential Readings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551303353 ISBN 13: 9781551303352

Publisher: Canadian Scholars, 2007

Synopsis

This provocative volume will influence the way people think of race and racialization. It provides a thorough examination of these complex and intriguing subjects with historical, comparative, and international contributions.

Edited as a theoretically strong, cohesive whole, this book unites a remarkable ensemble of academic thinkers and writers from a diversity of backgrounds. Themes of ethnocentrism, cultural genocide, conquest and colonization, disease and pandemics, slavery, and the social construction of racism run throughout.

About this title

About the Author

Lead editor Tania Das Gupta is an established Canadian scholar and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Equity Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University. Her research interests are in race, migration, diaspora as well as women and work.

>Carl E. James, a respected academic and experienced author, teaches in the Faculty of Education and also in the Department of Sociology at York University. His research interests include equity as related to race, class, gender and citizenship.

Roger C.A. Maaka is Head of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a respected academic from New Zealand, a Maori expert and scholar. Dr. Maaka's research interests include Indigenous Peoples' quest for equity.

Grace-Edward Galabuzi is Associate Professor at Ryerson University in the Department of Politics and Public Administration.

Chris Andersen is Metis from Saskatchewan, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551303353
• ISBN 13: 9781551303352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Gupta Tania Das, James Carl E., Maaka Roger C.A., Galabuzi Grace-Edward, Andersen Chris