Racial & Ethnic Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation

   Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   Edited by Davide Pero, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

   Remedying the 'Past'?

   Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer

   Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

   A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities

   By Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor. As a significant contribution to the on-going debate on the role of neoliberal states in reproducing gender-race-class...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Post-Racial Society is Here

   Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State

   By Wilbur C. Rich

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies

   Edited by Gary P. Freeman, Randall Hansen, David L. Leal

   Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

   Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Conservatism in the Black Community

   To the Right and Misunderstood

   By Angela K. Lewis

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   Conservatism in the Black Community examines the contemporary meanings of Black Conservatism and its influence on black political behavior, providing a basis for understanding the impact this phenomenon has on black political behavior. Lewis analyzes conservatism within the black ideological...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

   Edited by Linden Lewis

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

   Edited by Matthijs Bogaards, Matthias Basedau, Christof Hartmann

   Series: Democratization Special Issues

   In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Global Movement

    Edited by Ruth Reitan

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insights from engaged research and to critically reflect on movement histories and internal dynamics. It...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge