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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 Family as a Race Institution
The Family as a Race Institution
A growing body of research and scholarship now makes it possible to identify many strong connections between race and family life. In treating race as a structural force and shaper of family life, this emerging paradigm of race and family studies goes beyond merely acknowledging racial diversity and difference in family outcomes. Although it does not offer a singular theory of race and families, the framework synthesises scholarship that attends to the different histories and realities of racial ethnic families as they are situated in multiple systems of domination. By integrating scholarship on racial inequality, political economy and gender, published largely since 1970, this synthesis offers a unified (but not unitary) view of ...
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