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  1. Race in Contemporary Medicine

    Edited by Sander L. Gilman

    With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older category of race has been renewed. What role should “race” play...

    Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge

  2. Two-Faced Racism

    Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage

    By Leslie Picca, Joe Feagin

    Two-Faced Racism examines and explains the racial attitudes and behaviours exhibited by whites in private settings. While there are many books that deal with public attitudes, behaviours, and incidences concerning race and racism (frontstage), there are few studies on the attitudes whites display...

    Published April 22nd 2007 by Routledge

  3. Ethnicity and Everyday Life

    By Christian Karner

    Series: The New Sociology

    Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity. Combining theories of the everyday with...

    Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge

  4. Race and Ethnicity

    Culture, Identity and Representation

    By Stephen Spencer, Stephen Spencer

    Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of 'race' and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From Marxist views to post-colonialism, this book investigates the attendant debates, issues and analyses...

    Published March 1st 2006 by Routledge

  5. The Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

    Edited by Kenneth Thompson

    Series: The Making of Sociology

    The sociology of race and ethnicity is a controversial field, and yet one which was central to the making of sociology in the first half of the twentieth century. At the opening of the twentieth century there were already various sociologically or anthropologically inclined treatments of the...

    Published April 13th 2005 by Routledge

  6. The Early Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

    Edited by Kenneth Thompson

    The sociology of race and ethnicity is a controversial field, and yet one which was central to the making of sociology in the first half of the twentieth century. At the opening of the twentieth century there were already various sociologically or anthropologically inclined treatments of the...

    Published April 13th 2005 by Routledge

  7. Gypsy and Traveller Ethnicity

    The Social Generation of an Ethnic Phenomenon

    By Brian A Belton

    The book explores the notion of Gypsy and Traveller ethnicity and provides a critique of the conceptual basis of racial and ethnic categorisation. An analysis of the post-war housing situation is given in order to illustrate a connection between social and economic conditions, legislation affecting...

    Published September 29th 2004 by Routledge

  8. Imagining the New Britain

    By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

    Drawing on her own experiences, wide research and over one hundred interviews, Alibhai-Brown offers a fresh look at such topics as racism, imperialism, immigration and identity politics. Imagining the New Britain offers a startling portrait of the vastly changing face of British citizenship and...

    Published May 1st 2001 by Routledge

  9. Theories of Race and Racism

    A Reader

    Edited by Les Back, John Solomos

    Series: Routledge Student Readers

    This comprehensive Reader brings together foundation work in the study of race and ethnicity and writings from many of the most exciting scholars today. It is divided into the following main sections: origins and transformations sociology, race and social theory racism and anti-Semitism...

    Published December 8th 1999 by Routledge

  10. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations

    By Professor Ellis Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore

    Ethnicity and racial relations are almost universally seen as a prime motivating force behind social conflict and change. Often volatile and complex, racial interaction resonates through all aspects of contemporary society. Social issues which appear to have little connection to race often become...

    Published November 6th 1996 by Routledge