Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence

Dr Marie-Claude Barbier is Senior Lecturer and head of department at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan. Dr Bénédicte Deschamps is Senior Lecturer at Paris 7 University. Professor Michel Prum, also at Paris 7 University, founded the Groupe de Recherche sur l'Eugenisme et le Racisme (GRER - Research Group on Eugenics and Racism) in 1998 and he has edited six books on racism in English.

• Introduction 1. The Effects of Colonial Policy: Genocide, Racism and Aboriginal People in Australia 2. Taking History to Court: Defamation and Revisionism after the David Irving Trial 3. From Heroic to Comic Death: Representations of African Americans 4. Italian Americans and the Racialisation of Ethnic Violence in the United States 5. The Role of Violence in the Far Right in Canada 6. A 'Bolt-on Extra to the Police's Work?': Racism and Policing in the United Kingdom since the Macpherson Report 7. Roma Sacer: Constructing the 'Gypsy Other' in British Political and Legal Discourse 8. Anti-traveller Racism in Ireland: Violence and Incitement to Hatred 9. Hate Speech Made Easy: The Virtual Demonization of Gays 10. Challenging the Offence and Reclaiming the Offensive: The Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States and Online Homophobic Speech 11. The Impact of Interdependence on Racial Hostility: The American Experience