Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities: Social and Cultural Transformations (Sociology and Social Change)

Characterizing the era in the West as post-colonial and uncertain, Mac an Ghaill (social sciences, U. of Sheffield) takes up the interrelationship of changing representations of race, ethnicity, and racism with wider socio-economic, political, and cultural transformations. Rapid changes in the politics of race in so many countries, he says, requires that we transcend the anti-racist black-white dualistic model of racism. He suggests an older class-based explanation of racial difference and some new approaches. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)