Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
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 ...
Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity
1st Edition
By Terence Heng
August 01, 2022
In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption, and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities? Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity investigates the ways that Chinese Singaporeans shape their Chineseness through wedding rituals and ...
Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova
1st Edition
By Jason Arday
December 13, 2021
Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority perspective.In March 1997, the front page of the ...
Ethnic Subjectivity in Intergenerational Memory Narratives: Politics of the Untold
1st Edition
By Mónika Fodor
June 30, 2021
In this interdisciplinary study, Mónika Fodor explores how intergenerational memory narratives embedded in the speaker’s own stories impact ethnic subjectivity construction.Working with thematically selected life experiences from interviews conducted with second- and late-generation European ...
Life Trajectories Into and Out of Contemporary Neo-Nazism: Becoming and Unbecoming the Hateful Other
1st Edition
By Christer Mattsson, Thomas Johansson
June 30, 2021
This book provides the first comprehensive sociological study of the contemporary National Socialist movement in Sweden, including how it has developed since the 1990s until the present. It covers the ideas and political aspects of the movement, as well as the subjective and very personal stories ...
Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial: Muslims, the Swedish Judiciary and the Possibility of Justice
1st Edition
By Marta Kolankiewicz
December 18, 2020
This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden—a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults—Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light...
Immigration, Assimilation, and the Cultural Construction of American National Identity
1st Edition
By Shannon Latkin Anderson
August 14, 2020
Over the course of the 20th century, there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot, Anglo-Protestantism, and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came ...
Translocational Belongings: Intersectional Dilemmas and Social Inequalities
1st Edition
By Floya Anthias
July 09, 2020
This book explores the multiform and shifting location of borders and boundaries in social life, related to difference and belonging. It contributes to understanding categories of difference as a building block for forms of belonging and inequality in the world today and as underpinning modern ...
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
1st Edition
By Kristín Loftsdóttir
June 30, 2020
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland’s ...
Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-Caste-in-Class
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Camy Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Cecile Wright
June 30, 2020
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (...
The Black Professional Middle Class: Race, Class, and Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era
1st Edition
By Eric S. Brown
June 30, 2020
Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation ...
The Intersections of Whiteness
1st Edition
Edited
By Evangelia Kindinger, Mark Schmitt
June 30, 2020
Trumpism and the racially implied Islamophobia of the "travel ban"; Brexit and the yearning for Britain’s past imperial grandeur; Black Lives Matter; the public backlash against Merkel’s refugee policies in Germany. These seemingly national responses to the changing demographics in a multitude of ...