Focusing on the theories and histories of race, racism, and ethnicity, this book provides a comprehensive analysis within a global framework. It critically evaluates influential thinkers from Du Bois to Goldberg and explores various aspects of racism, including historical and contemporary examples. The text includes new research on topics such as racist violence and ethnicity in the UK, along with case studies from around the world. Additionally, it features helpful study aids like chapter summaries and activities to enhance understanding.
Focusing on self-research, the book delves into its theoretical foundations while providing diverse examples of its methodology across various contexts. It aims to equip readers with an understanding of how self-research can be effectively implemented, showcasing practical applications and insights that enhance the research process.
Racism Postcolonialism Europe turns the postcolonial critical gaze that had previously been most likely to train itself on regions other than Europe, and sometimes those perceived to be most culturally or geographically distant from Europe, back on Europe itself. The book argues that racism is alive and dangerously well in Europe, and examines this racism through the lens of postcolonial criticism. Postcolonial racism can be a racism of reaction, based on the perceived threat to traditional social and cultural identities; or a racism of (false) respect, based on mainstream liberals' desire to hold at arm's length 'different' cultures they are anxious not to offend. Most of all, postcolonial racism, at least within the contemporary European context, is a racism of surveillance, whereby 'foreigners' become 'aliens', 'protection' disguises 'preference', and 'cultural difference' slides into 'racial stigmatization' --all in the interests of representing the European people, which isa very different entity to the European population as a whole. Boasting a broad multidisciplinary approach and a range of distinguished contributors - including Philomena Essed, Michel Wieviorka and Griselda Pollock - Racism Postcolonialism Europe will be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, European history and literary and cultural studies.
