Racism, Policy and Politics

Karim Murji is a Professor based in the Graduate School at the University of West London and was previously at the Open University, UK. He has written widely on culture, ethnicity and racism as applied to fields such as race equality, policing, public sociology, and diaspora and identity. Since 2013 he has been part of the editorial team of Sociology, and, with Sarah Neal, he is the Editor of Current Sociology.

• Introduction: The `changing same’;Racial reality and unreality;Racialisation;Race critical scholarship and public engagement;Sociology and Institutional Racism;The impacts of social science;The end(s) of institutional racism;Racialised numerics;Framing riots.

"A stunning, authoritative and urgently needed book that unpicks with forensic precision the relationship between racism and injustice and the world of social policy and politics. A book of deep critical understanding but also one that alerts us to the politics of sociology itself and why it can be valuable." Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London