Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
Turkish Muslim Women in Berlin: Navigating Boundaries in the City
1st Edition
By Ceren Kulkul
September 23, 2024
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 ...
Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation: Stories from the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Billie Lythberg, Christine Woods, Susan Nemec
September 11, 2024
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 ...
Beyond White Privilege: How the Politics of Privilege Hijacked Anti-Racism
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Pierce
April 23, 2024
In the world of academic anti-racism, the idea of white privilege has become the dominant paradigm for understanding racial inequality. Its roots can be traced to radical critiques of racial capitalism, however its contemporary employment tends to be class-blind, ignoring the rifts that separate ...
Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees: Troubled by Difference, Docility and Dignity
1st Edition
By Marta Padovan-Özdemir, Trine Øland
January 29, 2024
This book explores contemporary Danish relations of colonial complicity in welfare work with newly arrived refugees (1978-2016) as recursive histories that reveal new shapes and shades of racism. Focussing on super- and subordination in helping relations of postcoloniality, the book displays the ...
The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope
1st Edition
By Kareem Muhammad
October 02, 2023
This book advances the view that concentrated black power is the backbone of the Democratic Party and, as such, black empowerment represents the last hope for the US both domestically and internationally. Through analyses of secondary data, historical archives, and a variety of political and ...
Racial Imagination and the American Dream: The Peace-Maker, The Prophet and The Politician
1st Edition
By Charles P. Henry
August 25, 2023
Although the phrase "the American Dream" dates from the 1930s, the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American ...
Making Mixed Race: A Study of Time, Place and Identity
1st Edition
By Karis Campion
May 31, 2023
By examining Black mixed-race identities in the city through a series of historical vantage points, Making Mixed Race provides in-depth insights into the geographical and historical contexts that shape the possibilities and constraints for identifications. Whilst popular representations of ...
Race and Masculinity in Gay Men’s Pornography: Deconstructing the Big Black Beast
1st Edition
By Desmond Francis Goss
May 31, 2023
This book unpacks the character of pornographic representations of queer Black masculinity and how these representations vary between corporate and noncorporate producers. The author argues that representations of Black men in gay porn rely on stereotypes of Black masculinity to arouse consumers, ...
Racism and Racial Surveillance: Modernity Matters
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheila Khan, Nazir Ahmed Can, Helena Machado
May 31, 2023
Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems. ...
School Choice, Race and Social Anxiety: Exploring French Middle-Class Parental Risks
1st Edition
By Anthony E. Healy
May 31, 2023
Based on a carefully contextualized and critical study, this book tells how France’s dominant social and political ideology and prevailing cultural conventions abate the effects of race and anxiety within school choice, here focused on public-school middle-class parents living among immigrants in ...
Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom
1st Edition
Edited
By Cara Hagan
January 09, 2023
Bringing together a diverse chorus of voices and experiences in the pursuit of collective bodily, emotional, and spiritual liberation, Practicing Yoga as Resistance examines yoga as it is experienced across the Western cultural landscape through an intersectional, feminist lens. Naming the systems...
Black Families and Recession in the United States: The Enduring Impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009
1st Edition
By Dorothy Smith-Ruiz, Albert M. Kopak
September 26, 2022
Black Families and the Recession in the United States goes beyond the massive loss of property among African Americans during the Great Recession of 2007–2009. It connects the housing experience to broader systems of inequality in America. Following the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the US ...