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Reviews the book "Ethnic Minorities in the Modern Nation State: Working Papers in the Theory of Multi-Culturalism And Political Integration," by John Rex.

Reviews the book "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Symbol of the Movement January 1957-December 1958," Volume IV, edited by Clayborne Carson, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Virginia Sharon and Kieran Taylor.

Reviews three books. "Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays," by Eric J. Sundquist; "The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society," by Judith Stein; "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.," vol. 1, "Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951," edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny A. Russell.

Reviews two books. "Group Rights in International Law," by Natan Lerner; "Selected Papers: 1946-1989," by J.J. Cremona.

Drawing from David Goldberg’s attentiveness to racism and ‘postraciality’, I read the role of racial violence and terror in the making of Palestine and the Palestinians. The paper shows how Goldberg’s book unsettles racialized convictions of postraciality, and deconstructs the uncompromising global narrative of race. Following Goldberg’s analysis, this paper challenges racialized Zionist ideologies by considering how we might understand the marking of Palestinian homes, bodies, and lives that have become sites of racialized incarceration and brutality through the process of Israeli settler colonialism. I suggest that there is a need to pay close attention to mundane, everyday modes of suffering in order to understand the postraciality of racial suffering in the context of Palestine. I explore how the equation of Palestinians with non-humans requires them either to disappear or submit to racialized exercises of power. These questions allow us to critically analyze postraciality in the context of those living at the limits of humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This review ofThe Scholar Deniedby Aldon D. Morris emphasizes the importance of DuBois for the start of American empirical social research. A.D. Morris correctly shows why W.E.B. DuBois was rejected, forgotten and suppressed by white sociologists for almost 100 years. Racial prejudices and scientific racism among American sociological elites prevented both Du Bois and his work from receiving the attention they rightly deserve. But my paper accentuates the role of Du Bois in the development of sociology as an empirical social science discipline. He created and published a programme of research on the African-American population. Publishing ‘The Philadelphia Negro’, he provided an excellent example of how to do such research. He also headed the first school of sociology on the American continent at the Atlanta University from 1898 to 1910. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies," edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos.

Foregrounding the voices of minority women in England, Scotland and France, Minority Women and Austerity provides a rich and compelling account of austerity’s lived effects. Through its intersectional analyses and historically attendant frame, the book locates minority women’s experiences of austerity not as fundamentally “new” but rather as an extension and sharpening of conditions of “routinized crisis” and inequality. In doing so it compels its readers to ask: whose crisis counts? In this review paper, I summarize the book’s key contributions. In particular, I discuss the book’s theorizations of “political racelessness” to critique the erasure of minority women’s experiences and activism. I reflect on what this means for those researching austerity and its deleterious effects, and for those participating in anti-austerity activism. I end by discussing the analytical tools that the book offers for interrogating the Left’s response to on-going austerity within a post-Brexit Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Migrants, Workers, and the Social Order," edited by J. Eades.

Reviews the books "Race, Migration and Schooling," edited by John Tierney and "Teaching About Race Relations: Problems and Effects," by Lawrence Stenhouse.

Alba and Foner’s volume is an important contribution to the transatlantic dialog. In the paper I especially focus on the presented labour market outcomes in the first generation and the accomplishments of the second generation in education. What do these outcomes tell us about integration and assimilation patterns across countries? Alba and Foner’s overall conclusion is that neither the theory of national integration models nor the theory of settler versus non-settler societies can explain the differences or similarities in outcomes across the six assessed countries. These theories, according to Alba and Foner, are debunked when empirically tested. I try to formulate what alternative explanations can be formulated based on the empirical data. Differences in historical institutional arrangements in education and the labour market can more accurately predict outcomes. Also differences in the dynamics between the mainstream population and immigrant groups in North America versus Western Europe are important. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, I will critically engage those aspects of Goldberg’sAre We All Postracial Yetthat I found to be particularly generative for thinking about contemporary racisms. These foci include the place of post-racial mystification vis-à-vis liberal market capitalism, animalization and synchronic global relationalities. A case will be made for post-race being best understood in terms of how it both incorporates as well as exceeds the explanatory terrain already serviced by the concept of ‘Cultural Racism’ and/or ‘New Racism’. A unique connection to Chamayou’s recentManhuntswill also be advanced. I will read contemporary processes of post-racial animalization via Chamayou’s key contention that Power is always about who is to be theobjectof force, who shall do theenforcingandhowis it to be enforced – a historically contingent force that results in particular technologies of classification, hunting, surveillance, internment, killing and fortification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper expands upon some of Goldberg’s initial reflections regarding the new type of ‘subject’ that is at the heart of post-raciality. A particular attention is paid to the connection with religion, as many of the current conflicts in Europe have been articulated through the grammar of secularism and religion, especially in relationship to Islam. This observation invites us to consider how this ‘racialization of religion’ figures as a reminder of the central role of this politico-theological question in the demarcation of who counts as a proper (political) subject, and how the current debates about Islam figure as a reminder of that. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews three books on Sri Lankan crisis. "The Break-Up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict," by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson; "Ethnic Conflict in Buddhist Societies: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma," by K.M. de Silva, Pensri Duke, Ellen S. Goldberg and Nathan Katz; "Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka," by John D. Rogers.

This paper explores Virdee’s account of how racialized minorities in socialist movements ‘played an instrumental role in trying to align struggles against racism with those against class exploitation’ (p. 164). In so doing, Virdee makes an important intervention at a time when popular historians and other ideologues are colluding in the elevation of myths and – no doubt in their view – noble lies that preclude these stories. Moving through theoretical debates concerning the relationships between race and class, the nature and form of sociologies of ‘outsiders’, to political issues of mobilization, Virdee’s book successfully brings in from the margins an account the multi-ethnic character of the working class in England from the very moment of its inception. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge," edited by Leo Dnedger and Shiva S. Halli.

Reviews the book "Hindu Nationalism, Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths," by Chetan Bhatt.

There are few sociology texts that acquire truly seminal status. This brief paper, however, reflects on one of the most celebrated and often cited works in British urban sociology. It seeks to explain: (1) the book's initial impact on debates and research in the field of ‘race and ethnic relations’; (2) the key controversies sparked by its theoretical positioning; and (3) why, and in what ways, it remains of relevance almost half a century after it was written. It concludes that there are two reasons for its continued appeal and significance. First, it placed housing firmly at the centre of debates about the position of Britain's migrant communities; second, it illustrates the potential of sociological research. At a time when controversies rage about ‘impact’, here is a work that not only contributed to our theoretical understanding of contemporary society, but also illustrated the value of ‘public sociology’ by engaging with the polity to bring about social change. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Caribbean Ethnicity Revisited," edited by Stephen Glazier.

Reviews the book "Razprave in Gradivo."

Reviews the book "Language and Ethnic Relations," edited by Howard Giles and Bernard Saint-Jacques.

Reviews the book "The Canadian Ethnic Mosaic: A Quest for Identity," edited by Leo Driedger.

Jennifer Elrick's terrific book argues that changes in Canadian immigration policy – and national identity – derive not just from politics, foreign relations, and economic pressures, but also lie in the culturally-infused boundary work of civil servants. This boundary work occurred through thousands of decisions about who "deserves" to migrate or stay in Canada, and what criteria were used to judge deservingness. This important book (1) invites comparison with other countries and time periods to identify scope conditions for bureaucratic policy-making, (2) raises questions of where bureaucratic culture comes from and how it is institutionalized in politics, and (3) opens up rich methodological conversations over how scholars should read, analyze, and understand boundary-work in archives and other qualitative data. We are also confronted with normative questions: whether and in what contexts should bureaucrats drive policy? This question is especially salient as populist, anti-immigrant politicians win office around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom," by Diane Negra.

The article reviews the books "Historical Foundations of Black Reflexive Sociology," by John H. Stanfield II, and "Black Reflexive Sociology: Epistemology, Theory and Methodology," by John H. Stanfield II.

Reviews the book "Race Critical Theories," edited by Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg.

Reviews the book "Rethinking Mixed Race," edited by David Parker and Miri Song.

Reviews the book "Patronage, Brokerage, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese Community of New York," by Bernard Wong.

Reviews the book "Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East," edited by Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich.

Reviews the book "White Power and the Liberal Conscience," by Paul B. Rich.

The article reviews the book "DEMOGRAPHY OF IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM," edited by David A. Coleman.

Reviews the book "Minorities Aging: Sociological and Social Psychological Issues," edited by Ron C. Manuel.

Reviews the book "The Pluralist Dilemma in Education: Sex Case Studies," by Brian M. Bullivant.

Reviews the book "Governments in Conflict? Provinces and Indian Nations in Canada," edited by J. Anthony Long and Menno Boldt.

Reviews the book "Pluralism: Cultural Maintenance and Evolution," by Brian M. Bullivant.

Reviews the book "Unity in Diversity: Multicultural Education in Australia," edited by Barbara Falk and Joy Harris.

Reviews the book "Research in Race and Ethnic Relations: A Research Annual," vol. 2, edited by Cora Bagley Marrett and Cheryl Leggon.

Reviews are presented for several books on political and ethnic studies, including "After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe," by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley and Atina Grossmann, "Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic," by Amy Abugo Ongiri, and "Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica," by Charles Price.

The article reviews several books including "Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain," by Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain, "Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil," by Stanley R. Bailey, and "Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity, and the Nation-Building Project," by Michael D. Barr and Zlatko Skrbis.