An impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by white scholars. The author highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. Index, bib, app, x, 118pp, UK. BERG, 1859731023

2nd Edition. Using a breadth of sources, from writers and political figures including Primo Levi, Franz Fanon, Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey to artists ranging from Bob Marley to Snoop Doggy Dogg, Gilroy champions a new vision of a political culture beyond racial, national, cultural and religious differences. Index, notes, xii, 406pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE, 0415343658

A timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation looking at the work of critics such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall. Chapters include Critical Ontologies and Racialised Gender; Resisting Black Skin; A Politics of Skin, Homes and Belonging. BNS, 188pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

Looks at the essence of Blackness and its manifestations in creative writings from the heartland of Africa and from the diaspora. Focuses on Wole Soyinka, Obotunde Ijimere, Wale Ogunyemi, Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka and Joge Amado. Index, bib, notes, 259pp, GERMANY. BAYREUTH.

From Aborigine to Zionism, this dictionary provides the historical background and etymology to Anglo-American perspectives on words and concepts relating to race, ethnicity and culture. Includes references for further reading at the end of each entry. Index, app, xviii, 355pp, UK. SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 0761969004

An exploration of the varied beliefs for physical and psychological racial differences from biblical passages to scientific theories. Index, notes, 195pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 1592211089

In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book offers a study of the trans-national circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled white men's countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia. Argues that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these countries worked in solidarity to exclude those they defined as not-white, actions that provoked a long international struggle for racial equality. Index, 371pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Assembled by a team of international scholars, this single volume reference work provides an introduction to all aspects of race and ethnic studies. Includes entries on Saartjie Baartmann, Paulo Freire, black feminism, and the Nation of Islam. Each entry includes suggestions for further reading. Index, xx, 491pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Based on the premise that ethnic pluralism will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity, the contributors ask how democracy can develop in multi cultural societies and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenge that ethnicity poses to nation building. Index, notes, xv, 336pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS 0852558600

Describes key aspects of racism and related forms of prejudice throughout world history. It shows how manifestations of racism, like imperialism and segregation, have recurred and persisted. Topics are presented in a novel A to Z format. Some, like apartheid and genocide, offer new insights into well-known subjects. Photos and cartoons, sources, notes, organisation and website information. 127pp, UK. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.

An analysis of the creation of racist images of Africa in European media, literature and politics. vi, 85pp, USA. BLACK STAR BOOKS CO., 0974003905

Looking at the scientific error which caused human beings to believe that they belonged to distinct races, the author recounts the events leading to international legislation against racism and the continuing difficulty in defining concepts of race and racism by both governments and the anti-racist movement. Index, bib, vii, 230pp, UK. POLITY PRESS, 0745630499

Maps the emerging field of texts written by authors who represent multiple cultural and literary traditions. BNS, 8 ill, 240pp, USA, 0804736405

This reader charts the evolution of debates on race and mixed race from the nineteenth to the twenty first century, adding new dimensions to the growing body of literature on the topic. Also provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of mixed race research as an intellectual movement. Each selection is followed by study questions. Index, notes, 329pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. These essays explore the reasons why issues of identity are so compelling and yet so problematic. Index, notes, viii, 198pp, UK. SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 0803978839

A study of the history of race, looking at key theorists and philosophers, the author traces the concept across 400 years. Index, bib, ix, 198pp, UK. PALGRAVE/MACMILLAN, 0333753135

This treatise offers civilizational historicism as the theory and practice of World Black struggle against global white supremacy in the 21st century. Builds on the author's previous work, Race and Reparations (1996) and in a three-volumed study of the Atlantic slave trade, Black Ordeal (1991). Bib, index, 443pp, USA.. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 086543896X

This book reviews debates around racial politics and the culture and economy of globalisation in an accessible way for undergraduate students. The authors contend that the forces of globalisation inhabit older cultures of racial division in order to safeguard the economic interests of the privileged. Arguing that the unspoken culture of whiteness informs much that passes in the name of globalisation, the book suggests that we are witnessing a reformulation of economic relations around global racisms. Bib, index. 186pp. UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A comparison of the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. Contributors look at Eritrea, South Africa, China, Jamaica, New Zealand, Germany, Brazil and the United States. Index, bib, notes, xiv, 391pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Begins by mapping a conceptual framework that seeks to locate the British experience within a broader context which it proceeds to apply in a systematic assessment of trends and developments of political and policy debates since the 1950s. Third edition. 352pp, UK, PALGRAVE.

A collection of essays and articles illustrating the debates and scholarship that the work of Ali Mazrui has generated from the 1960s to the present. Part 1 collects a range of review, critiques and reactions to the BBC production, the Africans screened in 1986. Includes articles by J.M. Coetzee and Wole Soyinka. Part 2 deals with gender and sexuality in Africa and the representations of African women. Part 3 looks at the question of slavery and the debate surrounding the Atlantic slave trade and the Arab slave trade in the Indian Ocean. Index, vii, 495pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 1592211453

An in depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti racism, as both a political discourse and social movement practice in western Europe. The author shows how examining anti racism provides insights into current debates about citizenship, immigration and Europeanisation. Index, bib, notes, xii, 338pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question: What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination? Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages. Ben Jelloun has created a unique and compelling dialogue in which he explains difficult concepts from ghettos and genocide to slavery and anti-Semitism in language we can all understand, and adds an all-new chapter for this edition. Also included are personal essays from four writers and educators who are all parents: Patricia Williams, David Mura, William Ayers, and Lisa D. Delpit. 208pp, USA. NEW PRESS.

A collection of essays by a broad group of philosophers and social theorists discussing the nature, sources, and implications of racism. Index, refs, ix, 304pp, USA. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS,.

From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and xenophobia related? Incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. 144pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Offers an anti essentialist and non reductionist account of racialised discourse and racist expression. The author looks at how the process of racism is being extended and normalised in language and society through categories dominant in social sciences such as `the West', `the underclass' and `the underdeveloped'. Index, bib, notes, x, 313pp, UK. BLACKWELL PUBLISHING.

Explains how the meaning of 'mixed race' alters with national boundary, historical context, class, gender and ethnicity. Examines the folklore around racism and anti-racism, and the agencies through which ideologies of race are propagated. Index, xii, 212pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS, 0745317642

Fourteen contributors explore the practical and ethical issues involved in doing research in the controversial and politicised field of race and racism. These papers discuss key methodological tools used in research including ethnography, qualitative interviews, archival research and language and psychoanalysis. This volume also includes research on racist movements and events, mixed race attitudes about race and identity among young people and working class men, whiteness, the experience of young Asian men, racial hierarchies and the ethical and political dimensions involved in race and racism. Index, bib, x, 240pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Thirteen essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama, drawn from a variety of different perspectives. Index, notes, ix, 233pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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A psychoanalytical and social analysis of the phenomenon of racism and 'othering'. Using empirical data, the author looks at the debates on both sides of the Atlantic and the work of social thinkers such as Adorno and Fanon, Freud, Lacan and Klein. Index, bib, 198pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Talking about controversial issues such as bias, stereotyping and racism is critical to helping learners make sense of the world. An activity-based resource that raises a range of debates and provides teachers with the tools to develop critical thinking in their learners - topics such as: Why are people racist? Are boys better at technical and science subjects? Was Jan van Riebeeck a hero or villain? Does overpopulation cause poverty and unemployment? What is democracy? Teaching controversial issues has illustrated classroom activities, as well as activities for teacher development and includes worksheets. 64pp, SOUTH AFRICA. NEW AFRICA EDUCATION.

While other magazines routinely send journalists around the world, Transition, the leading international journal of the African diaspora, invites the world to write back. Its far flung writers fill the magazine's pages with unusual dispatches, memoirs, unorthodox polemics, unlikely conversations and original fiction. In Transition 95, Trenton Daniel hosts the stars of Nigerian home video, Howard French exhumes Congolese literature; and Emmanuel Dongala pens the ballad of a child soldier. 129pp, USA. SOFT SKULL PRESS.

Examines the way in which much `third world' aid, far from contributing to the prosperity of recipient countries, helps to shore up global relations of domination and subordination. In particular, Goudge focuses on the role played by 'race' in discourses and practices of development, and on the impact of unacknowledged - and often unconscious - assumptions of white, Western superiority. Bib, app, 224pp, UK. LAWRENCE & WISHART, 0853159572