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An introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including study of race and ethnicity, intersections between nostalgia, imperialism, anticolonialism and Gavan Titley's book "Racism and Media."

This paper provides an overview of this Special Issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies. We discuss some of the themes that are covered in this issue in the context of the wider history of the journal. We argue that the journal has worked over the years both to publish the highest quality original research and to feature scholarship in emerging subfields that have helped to broaden both our scope and reach across the globe. In addition we highlight some of the contribution that the journal has made to the development of both established and new areas of scholarship in its field throughout the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented which discusses the articles within the issue on topics, including the ethnic and racial diversity of urban street markets, anti-immigrant sentiments in Belgium and narratives of ethnic identity construction in northeast England.

The article discusses various published reports within the issue, including one by Wendy Roth on the formation of panethnic identities, one by April Linton and Tomás Jiménez on bilingualism in the United States and another by Edward Flores the examines downward acculturation among second generation immigrants in the U.S.

The article discusses various articles published within the issue including one by John O'Loughlin and Gearóid Ó Tuathail on ethnic separatism, one by Jordi Muñoz on national identity during the democratic transition in Spain, and one by Cenk Saracoglu on the construction of political identities in Turkey.

This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of using official statistics - from administrative sources, vital registration, population censuses and government social surveys in sociological inquiry. In recent years influential critiques of such data by Cicourel, J. D. Douglas, Hindess and other have come to hold powerful sway in sociology. Yet their criticisms have been exaggerated, overdrawn and extended illegitimately far beyond fields such as suicide and crime in which they were originally developed. The advantages of such official data are here reasserted, by means of examples drawn from the study of health, wealth, occupation, social class and race and ethnicity. Significant and meaningful empirical regularities have been shown using such data. Facts do not speak for themselves, but neither does theory speak for itself. The conceptual difficulties are not so intractable as critics of the use of official data tend to suggest. Traditions of the use of official statistics in social science stemming from the works of Ernest Burgess, William F. Ogburn, S. R. Steinmetz and Oscar Morgenstern are discussed. The past achievements and future potential of research using such data are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changing boundaries of the study of ethnicity and race have been the subject of much debate in recent years. New theoretical debates have come to the fore and empirical research has broached new questions. Taking its cue from the wide range of themes covered in this special issue, this article seeks to map out some of the key areas in which this transformation has become apparent and to highlight the implications for ethnic and race relations as a field of study. In doing so it engages with some of the key questions that run through the whole of this special issue, including the relation- ship between race, power and politics, identity and difference and the politics of multiculturalism. It concludes by touching on some issues that need further research and analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section introduces several articles concerning ethnicity and multi-ethnic societies.