Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity

Dr Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and former Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh.He is Co-Investigator of The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (UKRI, 2021-2023) and Principal Investigator of the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe′s Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020).He was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group and the British Council′s Outreach Program, and formerly elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), and elected Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).  He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation.He is Series Editor of New Approaches to Sociology (SAGE); co-Editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; co-Editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press) and co-Editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS).

• IntroductionWhy a New Book on Race and Ethnicity?Carving Nature at its JointsIdentity and DispersionReflexivityHow to Use This BookANTISEMITISMThe Object-Subject DistinctionFrom Bigitory to RacismHierarchies and the New AntisemitismBLACKNESSAn Etymology of BlacknessBlackness and Double ConsciousnessBlackness as a Political IdentityThe Black AtlanticCITIZENSHIPThe Challenge Of CitizenshipWhat the Greeks and Romans Did For UsMarshall and Beyond: Equality and CultureNational and Post-National CitzenshipCitizenship and New Social MovementsDIASPORACo-Ordinates of DiasporaDiaspora and GroupsDiasporic SpaceEQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIESFoot Races And Starting LinesGroups and ExperiencesRecognition or RedistributionETHNICITYSubjectivities and PrimoridalismsEthnic Boundaries And Ethnic AssertivenessNew and Old EthnicitiesBoundaries and DrawbacksEURO-ISLAMEuro-Islam as Multidirectional ProcessEuro-Islam as Muslim AdaptationRe-Locating the Muslim SubjectHEALTH AND WELLBEINGEthnicity and HealthDisease and CategoriesEthnic VariationsHYBRIDITYHybridity as TranslationHybritity as IdentityINTEGRATIONTwo UsesDiversity and IntegrationIntegration as a Vortex IssueINTERCULTURALISMCommunication Beyond Co-Existence?Free From Cultural GroupsA Stronger Sense of the WholeIlliberalism And CultureINTERSECTIONALITYStructural Or Political Intersectionality?Intra-Categorical, Anti-Categorical, and Inter-CategoricalUnitary, Multiple and IntersectionalISLAMOPHOBIAChallenges and ResponsesIntersectional Islamophobia: Gender & CivilisationMIGRATIONRecent Trends in MigrationThree Ages of Mass MigrationTheorising MigrationMIXEDNESSMixedness as Population ChangeMixedness as Racial FormationMULTICULTURALISMA Philiosphical RationalePolitical Provenance(s)Intellectual CalibrationsKnown Knowns, Known UnknownsThe Backlash and BeyondNATIONALISMNationalism and the StateWhat is a Nation?Imagined CommunitiesEthnies And Pre-ModernityThe Bad and the BanalORIENTALISMMuslim SocietyA Style of ThoughtNeo-Orientalism?POLITICAL PARTICIPATIONThe Function Of Political RightsPolitical Participation as the FranchiseSecuring RepresentationPOST-COLONIALISMPost or Present?Politics, Culture or Both?Addressing or Ignoring the Post-Colonial?RACEHistory and CategorisationA Biological CategoryPost-Race or the Paradox of Race?RACE RELATIONSOriginsBritish Race RelationsSix Orders of Race RelationsStatus and PartyRACIALISATIONIntellectual ProvenancesHistorical RacialisationContemporary RacialisationPositive Racialisaiton and Model MinoritiesInstitutional RacismRECOGNITIONThe Range of RecognitionPhenomenology and EthicsCritical Theory and RaceMulticultural TurnsDemocratic ParticipationThe Emergence of MisrecognitionSECULARISMContemporary MeaningsSecularism and StateSecuralism And AutonomySecularism and CitizenshipPostsecularismSUPER-DIVERSITYA Concept For Our TimeWhat is New that is ‘Super’?TRANSNATIONALISMSocial Morphology and ConsciousnessCultural Reproduction and CapitalPolitical Engagement and SpaceWHITENESSWhite or Western?Racial Supremacy and PrivilegeClass and Negotiating IdentitySecularisationThe Conditions of Transnationalism

A conceptually power-packed volume that is at once erudite and accessible, expansive and focused, true to sociological traditions yet stimulatingly exploratory. Scholars and students will be served very well by this absorbing, far-reaching enquiry into ethnicity and race.