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What is the state of Race and Ethnic Studies today? How has the field emerged? What are the core concepts, debates and issues?The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is a vital resource for researchers and students with a panoramic, critical survey of the field. A rigorous, focused examination of the central questions in the field today, the text examines:The roots of the field of race and ethnic studiesThe distinction between race and ethnicity Methodological issues facing researchersThe relationship between the field and more established disciplinesIntersections between race and ethnicity and questions sexuality, gender, nation and social transformationThe challenge of multiculturalismRace, ethnicity and globalizationRace and the familyRace and educationRace and religionIssues for the 21st Century
Diaspora and Hybridity
Diaspora and Hybridity
The diaspora experience as I intend it here, is defined, not by essence or purity, but by recognition of a necessary heterogeneity and diversity; by a conception of ‘identity’ which lives with and through, not despite, difference; by hybridity
Introduction
In 1903, W. E. B DuBois famously prophesied that ‘The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line’ (1995[1903]: 41). While the subsequent hundred years have proved DuBois's words terribly, bloodily true, it is also the case that the past century has been challenged by the transformation and transgression of this line as well as by its (re)inscription. The twentieth century is characterised as much by the movement and displacement of peoples as by their separation, ...
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