Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
Governing Irregular Migration at the Borders of the European Union: Actors and Agencies Sharing the Power of Control
1st Edition
By Angeliki Dimitriadi
December 30, 2024
This book examines the governance of irregular migration within the European Union today. It critically analyses state power – its reconfiguration through various mechanisms and practices, and its diffusion to multiple bodies, state and non-state. Taking the securitisation of irregular migration as...
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety
1st Edition
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By Ayhan Kaya, Ayşenur Benevento, Metin Koca
October 04, 2024
This book analyses the factors and processes behind radicalisation of both native and self-identified Muslim youths. It argues that European youth responds differently to the challenges posed by contemporary flows of globalisation such as deindustrialisation, socio-economic, political, spatial, and...
Race in Sweden: Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation
1st Edition
By Tobias Hübinette, Catrin Lundström, Peter Wikström
October 04, 2024
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness, with any kind of race talk being taboo in public discourse and everyday ...
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
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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...