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Racism / edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos.

Contributor(s): Bulmer, Martin | Solomos, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford readers.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xi, 463 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0192893009; 9780192893000.Subject(s): Racism | Society | Society & culture: general | Social & cultural history | Cultural studies | Ethnic studies | Social discrimination & equal treatment | AnthropologyDDC classification: 305.8 BUL Summary: This Oxford Reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary forms of racist ideas and institutions, in an attempt to make sense of the way in which racism has exerted such a powerful influence on history.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

W. E. B. DuBois wrote in 1903 that `the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races in Asia and Africa, in America and in the islands of the sea'. As the century draws to its close, this remains true; if anything the salience of race and racism in all its manifestations has grown in the recent past. The last few years have witnessed a growth in academic interest in racism, and in related issues such as nationalism and ethnicity, as well as an increasing general awareness of various kinds of racial conflict and violence in a range of countries and regions across the globe. This Reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary forms of racist ideas and institutions. It brings together material from different theoretical perspectives in an attempt to make sense of the way in which racism has exerted such a powerful influence on the history of humanity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This Oxford Reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary forms of racist ideas and institutions, in an attempt to make sense of the way in which racism has exerted such a powerful influence on history.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Racist Ideas
  • Institutional Forms of Racism: slavery, imperialism and colonialism
  • Racism in the twentieth century
  • Racist Movements
  • Theories of Racism
  • Racism and the State
  • Anti-Racism
  • The Future of Racism
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Martin Bulmer is Foundation Fund Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is the editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies, in which he has been involved since 1988. His most recent book is Citizenship Today, edited with Tony Rees (1996) and he is Academic Director of the Question Bank, part of the ESRC Centre for Applied Social Surveys, established in 1995. He has wide experience of editing and publishing in British social science, and previously held a social policy appointment at LSE for 17 years, where he taught the main undergraduate course in race and ethnic relations for many years.John Solomos is now Professor of Sociology at South Bank University. Prior to this he was Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton, before which he was Reader in Public Policy, Birkbeck College, London, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick.