Race & Ethnic Studies

This book examines the role whiteness and white identities play in framing and reworking racial categories, hierarchies and boundaries within the context of nation, class, gender and immigration. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies...

In 2001 Britain saw another summer of rioting in its cities, with violent uprisings in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford. Linking original empirical research with a sophisticated conceptual analysis, this book explores the reasons for those riots and explains why they mark a new departure in Britain's ra..

In 2001 Britain saw another summer of rioting in its cities, with violent uprisings in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford. Linking original empirical research with a sophisticated conceptual analysis, this book explores the reasons for those riots and explains why they mark a new departure in Britain's ra..

This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational collective identity through the practices and discourses of everyday life, as well as through those of identity politics. It illustrates how the collect..

First published in 1989, this is the second of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique..

First published in 1989, this is the second of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique..

Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness. The rich empirical material and the conceptual apparatus employed in this volume render it appealing to policy makers as we..

Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the UK..

Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the UK..

This title was first published in 2000:  This unique empirical study of social control and deviance in Edinburgh’s Pakistani community examines the social order, how it is maintained, the institutions and processes that operate as mechanisms of (informal) social control, and the ways second-generati..

Drawing on unique, large-scale, cross-national survey data, encompassing natives as well as Turkish, Moroccan, Pakistani and ex-Yugoslav migrants across several Western European countries, this book offers extensive analyses of intermarriage, as well as attitudes towards intermarriage and intergroup..

The book concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among "the poorest of the poor" and focusing on US African Americans, Japan’s Burakumin, Afro-Cubans, the Dalits of India, and the Quechua and Aymara of Bolivia. _x000D_..