Includes bibliographical references (p. [616]-628) and indexes.

Introduction: Theorising Race and Racism / Les Back, John Solomos -- Origins and transformations -- First Impressions / Winthrop D. Jordan -- The Idiom of Race / Michael Banton -- Race and Racism / Tzvetan Todorov -- Race Relations / Oliver C. Cox -- The Conservation of Races / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Racial Beliefs in America / Gunnar Myrdal -- Sociology, race and social theory -- The Nature of Race Relations / Robert E. Park -- Race: What it is Not / Ruth Benedict -- Race Relations in Sociological Theory / John Rex -- Apropos the Idea of 'Race' ... Again / Robert Miles -- Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall -- Racial Knowledge / David Theo Goldberg -- The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race / Howard Winant -- Racism and anti-Semitism -- The Jews: Myth and Counter-myth / George L. Mosse -- Elements of Anti-Semitism / Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer -- Modernity, Racism, Extermination / Zygmunt Bauman -- Are Jews White? / Sander L. Gilman -- Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews / Matthew F. Jacobson -- Colonialism, race and the other -- The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon -- Imperial Culture / Lola Young -- The White Family of Man / Anne McClintock -- Under Western Eyes / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers / Ann L. Stoler -- 'Race', Time and the Revision of Modernity / Homi K. Bhabha -- Feminism, difference and identity -- Racism and Feminism / bell hooks -- White Woman Listen! / Hazel V. Carby -- Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Race and Rights / Patricia J. Williams -- Difference, Diversity, Differentiation / Avtar Brah -- White Women, Race Matters / Ruth Frankenberg -- Black Feminism and the Academy / Barbara Christian -- Changing boundaries and spaces -- Black Skin/White Boards / Gargi Bhattacharyya -- The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification / Paul Gilroy -- Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics / Kobena Mercer -- Identity and the Spaces of Authenticity / Michael Keith -- The Matter of Whiteness / Richard Dyer -- Race, Reform and Retrenchment / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw -- America Again at the Crossroads / Stephen Steinberg -- The Lore of the Homeland: Hindu Nationalism and Indigenist 'Neoracism' / Chetan Bhatt -- Enjoy Your Nation as Yourself! / Slavoj Zizek -- Racial Identity and Racial Identification / K. Anthony Appiah.

Theories of Race and Racism is an important and innovative collection that brings together the work of scholars who have helped to shape the study of race and racism as a historical and contemporary phenomenon. The Reader's contributions have been chosen to reflect the different theoretical perspectives and to help readers gain a feel for the changing terms of the race and racism debate over time. Theories of Race and Racism is divided into six main sections: -- Origins and Transformations-- Sociology, Race and Social Theory-- Racism and Anti-Semitism-- Colonialism, Race and the Other-- Feminism, Difference and Identity-- Changing Boundaries and Spaces

The editors go further to explore on the relatively new areas of interest that are likely to attract attention in years to come.