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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
The Spirit Lives on: Races and Disciplines
The Spirit Lives on: Races and Disciplines
Introduction
Though the biological validity of race was rejected after World War II, racial discourse and race-thinking continue to thrive in Euro-American academia. While the nature of racial discourse varies substantially between the UK and North America, and across Europe, certain themes are common in academic writings about race and racism. Indeed, writing abstractly about race is about engaging with a series of constant repetitions about the existence and non-existence of race, about the utility of the concept of race for social justice or for explaining biological difference and about the need to abandon this concept for the social sciences and humanities. The act of repetition promises a finality that fails to arrive ...
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