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  • Contributor: Bulmer, Martin; Solomos, John
    Date:
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    1999
    Summary:

    This Reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary focus of racist ideas and institutions. It seeks to locate the historical origins of racism, bringing 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.

    Contents:
    • I. Racist Ideas
    • 1. Images and Attitudes / Frank Snowden
    • 2. Africans' 'Place in Nature' / Philip Curtin
    • 3. Racializing of the World / Michael Banton
    • 4. Eighteenth-Century Foundations / George Mosse
    • 5. Superior and Inferior Races / Reginald Horsman
    • 6. Gobineau and the Origins of European Racism / Michael Biddiss
    • 7. Gobineau and His Contemporaries / Leon Poliakov
    • II. Institutional Forms of Racism: Slavery, Imperialism, and Colonialism
    • 8. Expansion of Islam and the Symbolism of Race / David Brion Davis
    • 9. First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans / Winthrop D. Jordan
    • 10. Social Origins of American Racism / George Fredrickson
    • 11. Class and Race / Eugene Genovese
    • 12. Slavery as Human Parasitism / Orlando Patterson
    • 13. Africa / Victor Kiernan
    • 14. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the British Caribbean / M. G. Smith
    • 15. Patterns of Dominance / Philip Mason
    • 16. Wretched of the Earth / Frantz Fanon
    • III. Racism in the Twentieth Century
    • 17. Of Our Spiritual Strivings / W. E. B. Du Bois
    • 18. Politics and the Alien / Paul Foot
    • 19. 'Don't Have to Look up to the White Man' / James R. Grossman
    • 20. Transformations of the Tribe / Stephen Cornell
    • 21. Group Definition and the Idea of 'Race' in Modern China (1793-1949) / Frank Dikotter
    • 22. Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Robert C. Smith
    • 23. Racism in Children's Lives / Barry Troyna and Richard Hatcher
    • IV. Racist Movements
    • 24. Racial Violence in Chicago and the Nation / William M. Tuttle, Jr.
    • 25. Toward a Sociology of White Racism / David T. Wellman
    • 26. Two Patterns of Racism / Michel Wieviorka
    • 27. Klan Rally at Stone Mountain, Georgia / Raphael Ezekiel
    • 28. New Cultural Racism in France / Pierre-Andre Taguieff
    • 29. Constructing Whiteness / Abby L. Ferber
    • V. Anti-Racism
    • 30. Living for Something / Marcus Garvey
    • 31. Race First and Self-Reliance / Tony Martin
    • 32. Black Power: Its Need and Substance / Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton
    • 33. End of Anti-Racism / Paul Gilroy
    • 34. Psychological Liberation / Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley
    • 35. Universalism and Difference / Cathie Lloyd
    • 36. 'It's Racism What Dunnit' / Philip Cohen
    • VI. Racism and the State
    • 37. Racial State / Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann
    • 38. Racial Formation in the United States / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
    • 39. Separate and Unequal / Desmond King
    • 40. Multicultural or Multi-racist Australia? / Stephen Castles and Ellie Vasta
    • 41. Racism and Anti-Racism in Brazil / Antonio Guimaraes
    • VII. Theories of Racism
    • 42. Nature of Race Relations / Robert Park
    • 43. Concept of Race in Sociological Theory / John Rex
    • 44. Racism as a Concept / Robert Miles
    • 45. Changing Face of 'Race' / Colette Guillaumin
    • 46. Semantics of Race / David Theo Goldberg
    • 47. Defining Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins
    • VIII. Future of Racism
    • 48. Emperor's New Clothes / Patricia Williams
    • 49. Tangled Politics / Paul Sniderman and Edward Carmines
    • 50. Changing the Color Line: The Future of U.S. Racism / Joe Feagin and Melvin P. Sikes
    • 51. Difference and Otherness in a Global Society / Alberto Melucci.
    Genre:
    Social science
    Subject(s): Racism | Race discrimination | Race relations
    Original Publisher: Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press
    Language(s): English