Key concepts in race and ethnicity / Nasar Meer.

Author
Meer, Nasar, 1980- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.
  • ©2014.
Description
xii, 161 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    SAGE key concepts. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • Introduction -- Why a new book on race and ethnicity? -- Carving nature at its joints -- Identity and dispersion -- Reflexivity -- How to use this book -- Antisemitism -- The object-subject distinction -- From bigotry to racism -- Hierarchies and the new antisemitism -- Blackness -- An etymology of blackness -- Blackness as a double consciousness -- Blackness as a political identity -- The black atlantic -- Citizenship -- The challenge of citizenship -- What the Greeks and Romans did for us -- Marshall and beyond: Equality and culture -- National and post-national citizenship -- Citizenship and new social movements -- Diaspora -- Co-ordinates of diaspora -- Diasporas and groups -- Diasporic space -- Equalities and inequalities -- Foot races and starting lines -- Groups and experiences -- Recognition and redistribution -- Ethnicity -- Subjectivities and primordialisms -- Ethnic boundaries and ethnic assertiveness -- New and old ethnicities -- Boundaries and drawbacks --^
    • Euro-Islam -- Euro-Islam as a multidirectional process -- Euro-Islam as Muslim adaptation -- Re-locating the Muslim subject -- Health and well-being -- Ethnicity and health -- Disease and categories -- Ethnic variations -- Hybridity -- Hybridity as translation -- Hybridity as identity -- Integration -- Two uses -- Diversity and integration -- Integration as a vortex issue -- Interculturalism -- Communication beyond co-existence? -- Free from cultural groups -- A stronger sense of the whole -- Illiberalism and culture -- Intersectionality -- Structural or political intersectionality -- Intra-Categorical, Anti-categorical and inter-categorical -- Unitary, multiple and intersectional -- Islamophobia -- Challenges and responses -- Intersectional Islamophobia: Gender and civilisation -- Migration -- Recent trends in migration -- Three ages of mass migration -- Theorising migration -- Mixedness -- Mixedness as population change -- Mixedness as racial formation -- Multiculturalism --^
    • A philosophical rationale -- Political provenance(s) -- Intellectual calibrations -- Known knowns, known unknowns -- The backlash and beyond -- Nationalism -- Nationalism and the state -- What is a nation? -- Imagined communities -- Ethnies and premodernity -- The bad and the banal -- Orientalism -- Muslim society -- A style of though -- Neo-Orientalism? -- Political participation -- The function of political rights -- Political participation as the franchise -- Securing representation -- Post-colonialism -- Post or present? -- Politics, culture or both? -- Addressing or ignoring the post-colonial? -- Race -- History and categorisation -- A biological category -- Post-race or the paradox of race? -- Race relations -- Origins -- British race relations -- Six orders of race relations -- Status and party -- Racialisation -- Intellectual provenances -- Historical racialisation -- Contemporary racialisation -- Positive racialisation and model minorities -- Institutional racisms --^
    • Recognition -- The range of recognition -- Phenomenology and ethics -- Critical theory and race -- Multicultural turns -- Democratic participation -- The emergence of misrecognition -- Secularism -- Contemporary meanings -- Secularisation -- Secularism and state -- Secularism and autonomy -- Secularism and citizenship -- Post-secularism -- Super-diversity -- A concept for our time? -- What is new that is 'Super'? -- Transnationalism -- The conditions of transnationalism -- Social morphology and consciousness -- Cultural reproduction and capital -- Political engagement and space -- Whiteness -- White or Western? -- Racial supremacy and privilege -- Class and negotiating identity.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Language note
    Text in English.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Why a new book on race and ethnicity?
    • Carving nature at its joints
    • Identity and dispersion
    • Reflexivity
    • How to use this book
    • Antisemitism
    • Blackness
    • Citizenship
    • Diaspora
    • Equalities and inequalities
    • Ethnicity
    • Euro-Islam
    • Health and well-being
    • Hybridity
    • Integration
    • Interculturalism
    • Intersectionality
    • Islamophobia
    • Migration
    • Mixedness
    • Multiculturalism
    • Nationalism
    • Orientalism
    • Political participation
    • Post-colonialism
    • Race
    • Race relations
    • Racialisation
    • Recognition
    • Secularism
    • Super-diversity
    • Transnationalism
    • Whiteness.
    ISBN
    • 9780857028679 (hbk.)
    • 0857028677 (hbk.)
    • 0857028685 (pbk.)
    • 9780857028686 (pbk.)
    OCLC
    883425367
    RCP
    H - S
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