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Major Works: Race & Ethnic Studies

You are currently browsing 1–10 of 12 new and published major works in the subject of Race & Ethnic Studies — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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Routledge Major Works has a strong international focus and each of the sets is edited by a leading expert in their field. This publishing programme continues to grow with new book series being created all the time. Worthy mentions include a new Sports Studies and Construction Series.

Titles published by Routledge Major Works cover an abundance of literature on leading and influential figures, key concepts, topics and sub-disciplines across the social sciences, humanities, behavioural sciences and law.

New and Published Books

  1. Black Women in Television

    An Illustrated History and Bibliography

    By George H. Hill, Lorraine Raglin, Chas Floyd Johnson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Television

    This bibliography lists more than 700 articles, books, dissertations, and theses on the participation of African American women in the television industry. Includes materials on specific television personalities and programs, and black women's involvement as producers, news anchors, and editorial...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Philosophy of Race

    Edited by Paul Taylor

    Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

    Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge

  3. Multiculturalism

    Edited by Gerd Baumann, Steven Vertovec

    Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research. Serious work on multiculturalism flourishes as never before, and this ‘mini library’ meets the need for...

    Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge

  4. RLE: Japan Mini-Set E: Sociology & Anthropology

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact online.sales@tandf.co.uk (...

    Published November 1st 2010 by Routledge

  5. RLE: Japan Mini-Set E: Sociology & Anthropology

    By Various

    Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact online.sales@tandf.co.uk (...

    Published November 1st 2010 by Routledge

  6. Modern Japanese Culture and Society

    By D. P. Martinez

    Series: Routledge Library of Modern Japan

    Since the end of the 1980s, scholarly work on Japan has attempted to escape the bounds of the previous discourse that continuously described it as ‘changing Japan’, a discourse which paradoxically also focused, in the main, on the hierarchical models of this so-called vertical society. While...

    Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge

  7. Social Movements

    Critical Concepts in Sociology

    Edited by Jeff Goodwin, James Jasper

    Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    A social movement is a collective, organized, sustained and non-institutional challenge to authorities, power holders, or cultural beliefs and practices. In the modern world, social movements are one of the main ways that people try to control their lives and articulate their moral positions. From...

    Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge

  8. Racial Exclusionism and the City

    The Urban Support of the National Front

    By Christopher T. Husbands

    First published in 1983, this book reports on the results of a survey in thirteen areas of England where the National Front (NF) had previously gained significant levels of electoral support and examines the social and political histories of these areas to reveal not only who and was voting for the...

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  9. Race, Colonialism and the City

    By John Rex

    John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related areas are brought together. Professor Rex discusses imperialistic social systems, and examines the...

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  10. 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

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film
    By Christine List
    To Be Published October 31st 2013
  2. The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film
    By Keyan Tomaselli
    To Be Published October 31st 2013

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