Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
Interrogating “Blackness” As a Human Identity: Ethical Implications and Phenomenological Predicaments
1st Edition
By Kuir ë Garang
February 04, 2026
This book highlights and explores in depth the moral and conceptual problems invoked by the continued use of “blackness” and “black” as modern identity realities for continental and diaspora Africans (CADA). The book deals with the importance of identity and theories of change and their systemic ...
Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation: Stories from the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Billie Lythberg, Christine Woods, Susan Nemec
November 28, 2025
This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies. Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary ...
Turkish Muslim Women in Berlin: Navigating Boundaries in the City
1st Edition
By Ceren Kulkul
November 28, 2025
Kulkul presents her ethnographic work with Turkish Muslim women in Berlin as evidence that community is not an entity but is produced by instrumentalizing specific forms of identification and boundary-making. In examining the role of community in the case of her participants, Kulkul finds that ...
Connecting Colonial Nostalgia and Global White Supremacism: Rhodesianmentality
1st Edition
By Tawanda Ray Bvirindi
November 04, 2025
This book links colonial nostalgia to the reactivation of white supremacism in the Global North. Bvirindi develops the concept ‘Rhodesianmentality’ to explore the ways in which colonial racialised discourses of othering shape contemporary racialised discourses on whiteness and white identity. ...
Mediated Racism and Democracy in Canada: Interrogating the News Industry, Political Systems, and Public Discourses
1st Edition
By Ahmed Al-Rawi
September 22, 2025
Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies. ...
Intergroup Contact, Friendships and Prejudice Reduction in Multiethnic Schools and Communities: Sociological, Psychological and Pedagogical Research and Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandro Bergamaschi, Cinzia Pica
June 30, 2025
This edited collection addresses the important study of the conditions that support positive intergroup contact that leads to intergroup friendships and prejudice reduction through a multidisciplinary lens. Employing Intergroup Contact Theory and Intergroup Friendships Theory as conceptual ...
Romani People in Italy: The Different Shades of Segregation
1st Edition
By Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
June 30, 2025
Romani People in Italy offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed analysis of the segregated condition of Romani people in Italy. The different shades of segregation take the form of housing, educational, and social isolation. While much of the existing literature focuses on individual case studies,...
The Sociology of African American Patriotism: Contradictions, Religiosity and Constructive Attitudes
1st Edition
By Yoshito Ishio
June 27, 2025
This book offers a sociological examination of the reasons why African Americans feel love toward their country in spite of continuing to perceive or experience racial prejudice and discrimination against themselves and other African Americans. Dr. Ishio conducted face-to-face, in-depth interviews ...
Black Hopes/Black Woes: Early African American Optimism and 21st Century Afro-Pessimism
1st Edition
By Raphaël Lambert
April 22, 2025
Black Hopes/Black Woes begins by delving into the contrasting mindsets of postbellum African Americans and their twenty-first-century counterparts, aiming to elucidate the shift from early Black optimism to present-day Black pessimism. It then focuses on the rationale behind Afro-pessimism, a ...
Regulating Interracialized Intimacies: Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Zambelli, Betty de Hart
March 24, 2025
This book explores the role of the law in the social construction of ‘race’ and ‘mixture’ within and beyond the borders of Europe. It focuses on ‘interracialized’ intimacies, that is, the intimate relations of subjects ascribed and/or perceived to belong to different ‘races’. The role of the state ...
Older African American Women: Systematic Racism, Health Disparities, and Caregiving Responsibilities
1st Edition
By Dorothy Smith-Ruiz, Marcia J. Watson-Vandiver, Debra C. Smith
March 20, 2025
African American women have disproportionally high prevalence, incidence, and mortality rates for most health conditions in comparison to White women. This book will explore some of the reasons for these disparities including problems within the health care system and societal institutions. The ...
In the Shadow of Islamophobia: Identity and Belonging for British Turks
1st Edition
By Özge Onay
February 25, 2025
This book explores the multifaceted experiences of British Turks, particularly focusing on how they navigate and negotiate Islamophobia in contemporary British society. It delves into the complexities of identity, ethnicity, and religion, shedding light on the unique ways in which British Turks ...