Includes bibliographical references (pages [616]-628) and indexes.
Introduction: Theorising Race and Racism / Les Back and John Solomos -- Pt. 1. Origins and transformations. 1. First Impressions / Winthrop D. Jordan. 2. The Idiom of Race / Michael Banton. 3. Race and Racism / Tzvetan Todorov. 4. Race Relations / Oliver C. Cox. 5. The Conservation of Races / W. E. B. Du Bois. 6. Racial Beliefs in America / Gunnar Myrdal -- Pt. 2. Sociology, race and social theory. 7. The Nature of Race Relations / Robert E. Park. 8. Race: What it is not / Ruth Benedict. 9. Race Relations in Sociological Theory / John Rex. 10. Apropos the Idea of 'Race' ... again / Robert Miles. 11. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall. 12. Racial Knowledge / David Theo Goldberg. 13. The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race / Howard Winant -- Pt. 3. Racism and anti-Semitism. 14. The Jews: Myth and Counter-Myth / George L. Mosse. 15. Elements of Anti-Semitism / Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. 16. Modernity, Racism, Extermination / Zygmunt Bauman. 17. Are Jews White? / Sander L. Gilman. 18. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews / Matthew F. Jacobson -- Pt. 4. Colonialism, race and the other. 19. The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon. 20. Imperial Culture / Lola Young. 21. The White Family of Man / Anne McClintock. 22. Under Western Eyes / Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 23. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers / Ann L. Stoler. 24. 'Race', Time and the Revision of Modernity / Homi K. Bhabha -- Pt. 5. Feminism, difference and identity. 25. Racism and Feminism / bell hooks. 26. White Woman Listen! / Hazel V. Carby. 27. Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins. 28. Race and Rights / Patricia J. Williams. 29. Difference, Diversity, Differentiation / Avtar Brah. 30. White Women, Race Matters / Ruth Frankenberg. 31. Black Feminism and the Academy / Barbara Christian -- Pt. 6. Changing boundaries and spaces. 32. Black Skin/White Boards / Gargi Bhattacharyya. 33. The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification / Paul Gilroy. 34. Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics / Kobena Mercer. 35. Identity and the Spaces of Authenticity / Michael Keith. 36. The Matter of Whiteness / Richard Dyer. 37. Race, Reform and Retrenchment / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. 38. America again at the Crossroads / Stephen Steinberg. 39. The Lore of the Homeland: Hindu Nationalism and Indigenist 'Neoracism' / Chetan Bhatt. 40. Enjoy your Nation as yourself! / Slavoj Zizek. 41. Racial Identity and Racial Identification / K. Anthony Appiah