Why Do We Still Talk About Race?
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.
Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author and editor of many books.
John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His most recent books are Race, Multiculture and Social Policy (with Alice Bloch and Sarah Neal, 2013) and Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives (with Karim Murji, 2014).
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors:
Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and
John Solomos, University of Warwick, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries and fields of scholarship, and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It is now available in both printed and electronic form. Since 2015 it has published 15 issues per year, three of which are dedicated to Ethnic and Racial Studies Review offering expert guidance to the latest research through the publication of book reviews, symposia and discussion pieces, including reviews of work in languages other than English.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Most recent titles in the series include:
Migrant Mothers Creative
Challenges to Racialized
Citizenship
Edited by Umut Erel and
Tracey Reynolds
Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and
Racial Studies: Classic Papers in
Context
Edited by Martin Bulmer and
John Solomos
Rethinking Reconciliation and
Transitional Justice After Conflict
Edited by James Hughes and
Denisa Kostovicova
Migration and Race in Europe
Edited by Martin Bulmer and
John Solomos
Why Do We Still Talk About Race?
Edited by Martin Bulmer and
John Solomos
Race and Crisis
Edited by Suman Gupta and
Satnam Virdee
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Introduction, Chapters 1, 3, 5-10 2019 Taylor & Francis
Chapter 2 2017 Claire Alexander. Originally published as Open Access.
Chapter 4 2017 Peter Wade. Originally published as Open Access.
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The chapters in this book were originally published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 41, issue 6 (May 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Why do we still talk about race today?
Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 41, issue 6 (May 2018), pp. 9971013
Chapter 1
Ethnic and Racial Studies: an outline history of forty years of publishing the research agenda on ethnic and racial issues
Christopher T. Husbands
Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 41, issue 6 (May 2018), pp. 10141033
Chapter 2
Breaking black: the death of ethnic and racial studies in Britain
Claire Alexander
Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 41, issue 6 (May 2018), pp. 10341054
