Ethnic and Racial Studies Today
This important collection brings together contributors to the leading international journal Ethnic and Racial Studies with colleagues from a wide range of disciplines, in an analysis of the teaching and studying of race today. Drawing on the latest research, topics covered include teaching race in politics, English studies, archaeology, psychology and cultural studies, geographies of racial identity and racism, the continuing significance of race in sociology and the history of racial inequality.
Ethnic and Racial Studies Today provides a comprehensive account of the key controversies and debates as well as pinpointing new directions in research and scholarship. It also offers a unique opportunity for people from different disciplines working in this area to learn from each other. The collection will be essential reading for everyone involved in the teaching and studying of race across the social sciences and humanities.
Martin Bulmer is Editor of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. John Solomos is Associate Editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies and is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University.
Ethnic and Racial Studies Today
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
First published 1999
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Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Ethnic and racial studies today
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Race relations Study and teaching.
2. Ethnicity Study and teaching.
3. Minorities Study and teaching.
I. Bulmer, Martin. II. Solomos, John.
HT1501. E75 1999
305.8 0071dc21
98-30802
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ISBN 0415181720 (hbk)
ISBN 0415181739 (pbk)
Contents
MARTIN BULMER AND JOHN SOLOMOS
DAVID MASON
LINDA MARTN ALCOFF
CAROLINE KNOWLES
PANIKOS PANAYI
GARGI BHATTACHARYYA
RICHARD JENKINS
KAREN HENWOOD AND ANN PHOENIX
RUPERT TAYLOR
MARIA LAURET
ALASTAIR BONNETT
SIN JONES
Contributors
Linda Martn Alcoff teaches philosophy and womens studies at Syracuse University. She has published Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (1996) and papers in SIGNS, Radical Philosophy, Philosophical Topics and elsewhere. She is working now on a book titled Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self.
Gargi Bhattacharyya is a Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of a number of articles and Tales of Dark-Skinned Women (1998). She has also written about aspects of her research and teaching.
Alastair Bonnett is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Newcastle, England. He is the author of Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation (1993) and two forthcoming books: Anti-racism and White Identities: An Historical and International Introduction.
Martin Bulmer is Foundation Fund Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and Academic Director of the Question Bank in the ESRC Centre for Applied Social Surveys, London. Previously he taught at the University of Southampton, the London School of Economics and the University of Durham and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, as well as briefly a member of the Government Statistical Service. Since 1992 he has been editor of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. His recent works include Directory of Social Research Organisations, second edition (with Sykes and Moorhouse, 1998) and Citizenship Today: The Contemporary Relevance of T. H. Marshall (editor with T. Rees, 1996).
Karen Henwood lectures in the School of Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor. She has done research in the areas of psychology, race and racism; womens relationships; and qualitative research methods. She has published in a range of psychology and interdisciplinary social science journals, including: Feminism and Psychology, Theory and Psychology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ageing Studies and British journal of Psychology. She has edited a volume on Standpointsand Differences: Essays in the Practice of Feminist Psychology (jointly edited with Chris Griffin and Ann Phoenix, 1998).
Richard Jenkins was trained as a social anthropologist at Belfast and Cambridge and is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He has done field research in Belfast, the West Midlands, Wales and Denmark, and is particularly interested in social identity, ethnicity and nationalism, and disability. Among his recent publications are Pierre Bourdieu (1992), Social Identity (1996), Rethinking Ethnicity (1997), and Questions of Competence (1998).
Sin Jones is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Manchester. Her publications include The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present (1997) and a number of articles that explore questions of ethnicity and race within archaeology.
Caroline Knowles is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton. Previously she was Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montreal. Author of Race, Discourse and Labourism (1992), Family Boundaries: the Invention of Normality and Dangerousness (1996), joint editor of Resituating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Culture (1996) and author of various articles on race and ethnicity.
Maria Lauret teaches American Literature in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. Before that she was a lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. Her current research interests are race and ethnicity in American literature and culture, the autobiographical writing of women activists, and bilingualism and migration. As well as completing a book on Alice Walker (1999), she is currently preparing articles on the fiction of Terry MacMillan and Bharati Mukherjee and on Eva Hoffmans autobiography. Her recent publications include Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America and Ive got a right to sing the blues: Alice Walkers aesthetic in Richard King and Helen Taylor (eds)
