This text is a powerful indictment of contemporary academic practices, in which Gilroy highlighted the inadequacies of the British approach to race. It provided a powerful new direction for race relations theory in Britain.
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This text is a powerful indictment of contemporary academic practices, in which Gilroy highlighted the inadequacies of the British approach to race. It provided a powerful new direction for race relations theory in Britain.
"Antenor Firmin's Equality of Human Races is a pioneering work of early anthropology written in French by a Haitian who is probably anthropology's first scholar of African descent. Firmin published De l' galit des Races Humaines in Paris in 1885 twenty years after the 'Father of…
"On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving widespread death and destruction. The inept emergency response that followed exposed major institutional flaws and poor planning. Questions linger: Can this happen again? Is our government equipped to …
"In Race: The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But as Hannaford shows, race is n…
"In Race, The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But, Hannaford shows, race is not a univer…
"In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire; political theories of t…
This volume reviews this field, drawing upon the largest study of minority ethnic probationers ever conducted in Europe, and seeking to understand the reasons behind the 'stark contrast between the experience of white and black minority ethnic people in some areas of the crimina…
"South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have concepts of race figured very prominently in South Asian Studies. This volume constitutes one of the fir…
"South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have concepts of race figured very prominently in South Asian Studies. This volume constitutes one of the fir…
Weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them--an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse a…
White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extr…