The Unfinished Politics of Race

Les Back is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has researched and written on urban culture, ethnicity, migration, cultural politics, music, and higher education. Michael Keith is Director of the PEAK Urban Research programme and the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford (seconded to PEAK urban until 2024). His research focuses on migration-related processes of urban change. He was a former leader of a local authority and founder, activist in third sector organisations and was involved in the politics of east London for twenty years. Kalbir Shukra is Senior Lecturer in Community and Youth Work at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has previously researched and written on black politics, particularly in relation to Labour Party Black Sections and anti-oppressive practice strategies in youth work and community development. Her current work is centred around youth democracy and political education. John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has researched and written widely on the history and contemporary forms of race and ethnic relations in Britain, theories of race and racism, race and football, and racist movements and ideas. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

• Introduction; Part I. Beginnings: Routes to the Present; 1. From Empire to Multicultural Democracy?; 2. Changing Contours of Race and the Political; 3. Shifting Dynamics of Race and Local Politics; Part II. Moments in Time and Place: Rethinking Everyday Politics; 4 Politics of Dwelling: From Migration to Race and Back Again; 5. Antiracism, Participation, and the Transitional Public Sphere; 6. Cultures of the Convivial; 7. Post-Secular Multiculturalism and the New Political Landscapes of Twenty First Century Britain; 8. The Racial Politics of Migrant Integration and Cohesion; Part III. History in the Present: Rethinking Social Science, Migration and Race; 9. From Identity Politics to an Unfinished Politics of Race; 10. Present Times and Future Places.

'In the wake of Black Lives Matter, the ongoing asylum crisis and the devastating, still unfolding impact of the Covid19 pandemic, issues of racial and ethnic inequality are at the forefront of public, political and policy concerns. Empirically grounded, historically and theoretically nuanced, The Unfinished Politics of Race reminds us that these current crises have deep roots and shines a light on the longer history of resistance by black and ethnic minority organisations and activists. A timely, important and challenging contribution to an urgent and unfinished conversation.' Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester