Racism

by Bulmer, Martin; Solomos, John

• ISBN13: 9780192893000
• ISBN10: 0192893009
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

W. E. B. DuBois wrote in 1903 that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races in the various areas of the world in which they interact." As the century draws to its close, this remains true; the last few years have witnessed a growth in academic interest in racism and an increasing general awareness of various kinds of racial conflict and violence in areas around the globe. This Oxford Reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary forms of racist ideas and institutions. It brings together material from different theoretical perspectives in an attempt to make sense of the ways in which racism has exerted such a powerful influence on the history of humanity.

Author Biography

Martin Bulmer is Foundation Fund Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is the editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies, in which he has been involved since 1988. His most recent book is Citizenship Today, edited with Tony Rees (1996) and he is Academic Director of the Question Bank, part of the ESRC Centre for Applied Social Surveys, established in 1995. He has wide experience of editing and publishing in British social science, and previously held a social policy appointment at LSE for 17 years, where he taught the main undergraduate course in race and ethnic relations for many years.
John Solomos is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton, before which he was Reader in Public Policy, Birkbeck College, London, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick. He has researched and written widely on the politics of race and social change, the development of new forms of racism in contemporary Euro

Table of Contents

General Introduction	3	(15)
I. Racist Ideas
Introduction	18	(3)
Images and Attitudes	21	(10)
Frank Snowden
The Africans' `Place in Nature'	31	(3)
Philip Curtin
The Racializing of the World	34	(6)
Michael Banton
Eighteenth-Century Foundations	40	(5)
George Mosse
Superior and Inferior Races	45	(4)
Reginald Horsman
Gobineau and the Orgins of European Racism	49	(3)
Michael Biddiss
Gobineau and His Contemporaries	52	(9)
Leon Poliakov
II. Institutional Forms of Racism: Slavery, Imperialism, and Colonialism
Introduction	57	(4)
The Expansion of Islam and the Symbolism of Race	61	(5)
David Brion Davis
First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans	66	(4)
Winthrop D. Jordan
Social Origins of American Racism	70	(13)
George Fredrickson
Class and Race	83	(6)
Eugene Genovese
Slavery as Human Parasitism	89	(8)
Orlando Patterson
Africa	97	(2)
Victor Keirnan
Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the British Caribbean	99	(7)
M. G. Smith
Patterns of Dominance	106	(10)
Philip Mason
The Wretched of the Earth	116	(9)
Frantz Fanon
III. Racism in the Twentieth Century
Introduction	121	(4)
Of Our Spiritual Strivings	125	(5)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Politics and the Alien	130	(6)
Paul Foot
`Don't Have to Look up to the White Man'	136	(9)
James R. Grossman
The Transformations of the Tribe	145	(15)
Stephen Cornell
Group Definition and the Idea of `Race' in Modern China (I793-1949)	160	(8)
Frank Dikotter
Racism in Children's Lives	168	(12)
Barry Troyna
Richard Hatcher
IV. Racist Movements
Introduction	177	(3)
Racial Violence in Chicago and the Nation	180	(4)
William M. Tutter Jr.
Toward a Sociology of White Racism	184	(6)
David T. Wellman
Two Patterns of Racism	190	(10)
Michel Wieviorka
Klan Rally at Stone Mountain, Georgia	200	(6)
Raphael Ezekiel
The New Cultural Racism in France	206	(7)
Pierre-Andre Taguieff
Constructing Whiteness	213	(14)
Abby L. Ferber
V. Anti-Racism
Introduction	224	(3)
Living for Something	227	(3)
Marcus Garvey
Race First and Self-Reliance	230	(6)
Tony Martin
Black Power: Its Need and Substance	236	(6)
Kwame Ture
Charles V. Hamilton
The End of Anti-Racism	242	(8)
Paul Gilroy
Psychological Liberation	250	(9)
Heribert Adam
Kogila Moodley
Universalism and Difference	259	(8)
Cathie Lloyd
`It's Racism What Dunnit'	267	(7)
Philip Cohen
VI. Racism and the State
Introduction
The Racial State	274	(14)
Michael Burleigh
Wolfgang Wippermann
Racial Formation in the United States	288	(13)
Michael Omi
Howard Winant
Separate and Unequal	301	(5)
Desmond King
Multicultural or Multi-racist Australia?	306	(8)
Stephen Castles
Ellie Vasta
Racism and Anti-Racism in Brazil	314	(15)
Antonio Guimaraes
VII. Theories of Racism
Introduction
The Nature of Race Relations	329	(3)
Robert Park
The Concept of Race in Sociological Theory	332	(3)
John Rex
Racism as a Concept	335	(20)
Robert Miles
The Changing Face of `Race'	355	(7)
Colette Guillaumin
The Semantics of Race	362	(15)
David Theo Goldberg
Defining Black Feminist Thought	377	(14)
Patricia Hill Collins
VIII. The Future of Racism
Introduction	388	(3)
The Emperor's New Clothes	391	(8)
Patricia Williams
Tangled Politics	399	(8)
Paul Sniderman
Edward Carmines
Changing the Color Line: The Future of U. S. Racism	407	(5)
Joe Feagin
Melvin P. Sikes
Difference and Otherness in a Global Society	412	(14)
Alberto Melucci
Notes and References	426	(18)
Further Reading	444	(4)
Biographical Notes	448	(7)
Acknowledgements	455	(4)
Index	459