Comparative Perspectives on Racism

by Wal, Jessika Ter; Verkuyten, Maykel; Ter Wal, Jessika

• ISBN13: 9780754611233
• ISBN10: 075461123X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Featuring diverse empirical examples, this book explores the possibilities for comparative research on racism. It examines the questions, problems, relative costs and benefits of comparative research, with specific reference to the monitoring of racism in different countries and to initiatives aimed at combating racism.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
List of Contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction: Racism in a Comparative Perspective	1	(22)
Maykel Verkuyten
Jessika ter Wal
Making Racial Culture: Children and the Mental Life of a Social Concept	23	(24)
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Racism in Nationalised States: A Framework for Comparative Research	47	(26)
Andreas Wimmer
Conceptualising Racism and Islamophobia	73	(18)
Malcolm D. Brown
Ideologies, Racism, Discourse: Debates on Immigration and Ethnic Issues	91	(26)
Teun A. van Dijk
Giving Foreigners the Vote: Ethnocentrism in Dutch and Belgian Political Debates	117	(22)
Dirk Jacobs
Political Claims-Making against Racism and Discrimination in Britain and Germany	139	(32)
Ruud Koopmans
Paul Statham
Group Goal Attributions and Stereotypes in Five Former Soviet States	171	(20)
Louk Hagendoorn
Hub Linssen
Changes in National and Ethnic Stereotypes in Central and Eastern Europe	191	(20)
Edwin Poppe
Jewish Identity, Discrimination and Anti-Semitism in Three Countries	211	(22)
Monica Savulescu-Voudouris
Camil Fuchs
A Typology of Racist Violence: Implications for Comparative Research and Intervention	233	(20)
Caludio Bolzman
Anne-Catherine Salberg Mendoza
Monique Eckmann
Karl Grunberg
Monitoring Ethnic Relations in Western and Eastern Europe	253	(28)
Cristiano Codagnone
Author Index	281	(2)
Subject Index	283