"A conceptually power-packed volume that is at once erudite and accessible, expansive and focused, true to sociological traditions yet stimulatingly exploratory. Scholars and students will be served very well by this absorbing, far-reaching enquiry into ethnicity and race."
- Raymond Taras, Tulane University
"This concise, profound, and beautifully written book offers a tour de force across the landscape of race and ethnicity by a young author who masters them all."
- Per Mouritsen, Aarhus University
This book offers an accessible discussion of both foundational and novel concepts in the study of race and ethnicity. Each account will help readers become familiar with how long standing and contemporary arguments within race and ethnicity studies contribute to our understanding of social and political life more broadly.
Providing an excellent starting point with which to understand the contemporary relevance of these concepts, Nasar Meer offers an up-to-date and engaging consideration of everyday examples from around the world.
This is an indispensable guide for both students and established researchers interested in the study of race and ethnicity.
Introduction
Why a New Book on Race and Ethnicity?
Carving Nature at its Joints
Identity and Dispersion
Reflexivity
How to Use This Book
ANTISEMITISM
The Object-Subject Distinction
From Bigitory to Racism
Hierarchies and the New Antisemitism
BLACKNESS
An Etymology of Blackness
Blackness and Double Consciousness
Blackness as a Political Identity
The Black Atlantic
CITIZENSHIP
The Challenge Of Citizenship
What the Greeks and Romans Did For Us
Marshall and Beyond: Equality and Culture
National and Post-National Citzenship
Citizenship and New Social Movements
DIASPORA
Co-Ordinates of Diaspora
Diaspora and Groups
Diasporic Space
EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES
Foot Races And Starting Lines
Groups and Experiences
Recognition or Redistribution
ETHNICITY
Subjectivities and Primoridalisms
Ethnic Boundaries And Ethnic Assertiveness
New and Old Ethnicities
Boundaries and Drawbacks
EURO-ISLAM
Euro-Islam as Multidirectional Process
Euro-Islam as Muslim Adaptation
Re-Locating the Muslim Subject
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Ethnicity and Health
Disease and Categories
Ethnic Variations
HYBRIDITY
Hybridity as Translation
Hybritity as Identity
INTEGRATION
Two Uses
Diversity and Integration
Integration as a Vortex Issue
INTERCULTURALISM
Communication Beyond Co-Existence?
Free From Cultural Groups
A Stronger Sense of the Whole
Illiberalism And Culture
INTERSECTIONALITY
Structural Or Political Intersectionality?
Intra-Categorical, Anti-Categorical, and Inter-Categorical
Unitary, Multiple and Intersectional
ISLAMOPHOBIA
Challenges and Responses
Intersectional Islamophobia: Gender & Civilisation
MIGRATION
Recent Trends in Migration
Three Ages of Mass Migration
Theorising Migration
MIXEDNESS
Mixedness as Population Change
Mixedness as Racial Formation
MULTICULTURALISM
A Philiosphical Rationale
Political Provenance(s)
Intellectual Calibrations
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns
The Backlash and Beyond
NATIONALISM
Nationalism and the State
What is a Nation?
Imagined Communities
Ethnies And Pre-Modernity
The Bad and the Banal
ORIENTALISM
Muslim Society
A Style of Thought
Neo-Orientalism?
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
The Function Of Political Rights
Political Participation as the Franchise
Securing Representation
POST-COLONIALISM
Post or Present?
Politics, Culture or Both?
Addressing or Ignoring the Post-Colonial?
RACE
History and Categorisation
A Biological Category
Post-Race or the Paradox of Race?
RACE RELATIONS
Origins
British Race Relations
Six Orders of Race Relations
Status and Party
RACIALISATION
Intellectual Provenances
Historical Racialisation
Contemporary Racialisation
Positive Racialisaiton and Model Minorities
Institutional Racism
RECOGNITION
The Range of Recognition
Phenomenology and Ethics
Critical Theory and Race
Multicultural Turns
Democratic Participation
The Emergence of Misrecognition
SECULARISM
Contemporary Meanings
Secularism and State
Securalism And Autonomy
Secularism and Citizenship
Postsecularism
SUPER-DIVERSITY
A Concept For Our Time
What is New that is 'Super'?
TRANSNATIONALISM
Social Morphology and Consciousness
Cultural Reproduction and Capital
Political Engagement and Space
WHITENESS
White or Western?
Racial Supremacy and Privilege
Class and Negotiating Identity
Secularisation
The Conditions of Transnationalism
