Theories of Race and Racism

Part One: Origins and Transformations Introduction 1. Winthrop D. Jordan First Impressions 2. Robert Bernasconi Who Invented the Concept of Race? 3. W. E. B. Du Bois The Conservation of Races 4. Orlando Patterson The Denial of Slavery in Contemporary American Sociology 5. Satnam Virdee Racialized Capitalism 6. Zine Magubane American Sociology's Racial Ontology 7. Jacqueline Nassy Brown Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space 8. Catherine Hall Doing Reparatory History Part Two: Sociology, Race and Social Theory Introduction 9. Robert Park The Nature of Race Relations 10. E. Franklin Frazier Sociological Theory and Race Relations 11. Jose Itzigsohn and Karida Brown Sociology and the Theory of Double Consciousness 12. Aldon D. Morris W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center 13. Gurminder K. Bhambra Race, Segregation and U.S. Sociology 14. Stuart Hall Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities 15. Brett St Louis On the Necessity and the 'Impossibility' of Identities 16. Salman Sayyid Post-racial Paradoxes 17. Graziella Moraes Silva Folk Conceptualizations of Racism and Antiracism in Brazil and South Africa 18. Wendy D. Roth The Multiple Dimensions of Race 19. Ann Morning Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership 20. Elijah Anderson The White Space 21. Claire Alexander Breaking Black Part Three: Racism and Antisemitism Introduction 22. George L. Mosse The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth 23. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer Elements of Anti-Semitism 24. Dan Stone Not a Race but Only a People after All 25. Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine Reconnecting the Study of Racism and Antisemitism 26. Nasar Meer and Tehseen Noorani A Sociological Comparison of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Britain 27. Jonathan Judaken Rethinking the New Antisemitism in a Global Age 28. Brian Klug Interrogating New Anti-Semitism 29. Tony Kushner Anti-Semitism in Britain 30. Elli Tikvah Sarah When

Les Back is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He has researched and written on urban culture, ethnicity, migration, cultural politics, music and higher education. His most recent books include Migrant City (co-authored with Shamser Sinha, Routledge, 2018) and Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters (Goldsmiths Press, 2016). He writes journalism, has made documentary films and currently presents a podcast series on contemporary city life called Streetsigns for CUCR in London.

John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He has researched and written widely on the history and contemporary forms of race and ethnic relations in Britain, theories of race and racism, the politics of race, equal opportunity policies, multiculturalism and social policy, race and football and racist movements and ideas. His most recent books are Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory (Routledge, 2022) and Race and Racism in Britain 4th Edition (2022). His most recent edited books are An Introduction to Sociology (co-edited with Karim Murji and Sarah Neal, SAGE, 2022) and Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms (Routledge, 2020). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Ethnic and Racial Studies journal, co-editor of the Racism, Resistance and Social Change book series (Manchester University Press) and General Editor of the online The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism series.