Overview

This second edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to the issues surrounding students' understanding of race, racism and racial discrimination. New to this edition is a preface detailing the consequences for ethnic and race relations following recent major world development, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall. The book also features coverage of such issues as the nature of ethnic consciosuness and such phenomena as ethnic cleansing and asylum seeking. The impact of the mass media on the situations in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda is examined, as are recent developments in South Africa. Finally, there is an up-to-date comparison of British, French and German attitudes to nationality, immigration and asylum seeking.

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Author:   Michael Banton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780582299115

ISBN 10:   058229911
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   03 February 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Modes of discourse, The sources of group consciousness. 2. Naming differences: Practical language, Name-changing, Legal language, Conflict. 3. Accounting for differences: Explanations, Natural Selection, Ethnicity, Racism, Looking ahead. 4. Groups and individuals: Ends and means, Experimental research, Encounters between peoples, Continuous and discontinuous ranking interation. 5. Peoples and states: Implications of empire, Rwanda and Burundi, Genocide, Constitutional engineering, Conclusion. 6. Increasing group consciousness: Racial classification, Segregation, Sanctions, Group Competition, Transmitted inequality, The sphere of the state, Conclusion. 7. Decreasing group consciousness: The second Reconstruction in the USa, The prospects for South Africa, Ethnic consciousness in Western Europe, Negotiating change, Conclusion. 8. International oversight: Regional organisations, UN Treaty bodies, The Development of policy in the UK, The UK report as a case study, CERD'S reception of the UK's Thirteenth report, Conclusion. 9. Collective action: Morale, The nation-state, Religion, Diversity, Conclusion. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Lecturer's comment: ...Banton has written an insightful introductory text of inestimable value to those of us who must confront the myriad popular prejudices about race which today's students bring to the classroom .

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