Forthcoming Theories of Race & Ethnicity Books

Forthcoming Books

1. African Diaspora and the Metropolis

   Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience

   Edited by Fassil Demissie

   At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century

   Changes and Challenges

   Edited by Charles A. Gallagher, France Winddance Twine

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century examines the role whiteness and white identities play in framing and reworking racial categories, hierarchies and boundaries within the context of nation, class, gender and immigration. It takes as its theoretical starting point the understanding...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Non-racialism in South Africa

   Edited by David Everatt

   When Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa in 1994, the world looked on at the ‘miracle’ of racial reconciliation that unfolded in South Africa. However, the dream of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ (in Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s phrase) seems to be fading, and racial identities seem to be more...

   To Be Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Migrants and Race in the US

   Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside

   By Philip Kretsedemas

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be "indigenous" to the nation. In the US,...

   To Be Published July 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth

   Gender and socio-cultural differences

   Edited by Ruth Evans, Louise Holt

   Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth focuses on the diverse spaces and discourses of children and youth globally. The chapters explore the influence of gender, age and other socio-cultural differences, such as race, ethnicity and migration trajectories, on the everyday lives of children and...

   To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. Cross Cultural Women Scholars in Academe

   Intergenerational Voices

   Edited by Lorri J. Santamaría, Gaëtane Jean-Marie, Cosette M. Grant

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian-American, Black/African-American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice

   Transforming Subjectivities in the New Millennium

   Edited by Bob Pease, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   Through a series of case studies of groups challenging social inequalities - based in class, race, culture, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, and disability - this book develops a critical-theoretical account of forms of resistance. It explores how people make sense of their subjectivity as...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

   Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance

   Edited by Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Critical Race Theory in England

   Edited by Namita Chakrabarty, Lorna Roberts, John Preston

   Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence of racial discrimination throughout the world today, addressing issues such as racism, post-colonialism and systems of apartheid. Despite claims we live in a post-racial era, equality laws are under threat in the UK and evidence of...

   To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
10. Racialization and Religion

    Edited by Nasar Meer

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such, it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other, or is explored in distinct silos as a series of...

    To Be Published November 17th 2013 by Routledge