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Introduction / Martin Bulmer and John Solomos. -- The continuing significance of race?: teaching ethnic and racial studies in sociology / David Mason. -- Philosophy and racial identity / Linda Martín Alcoff. -- The symbolic empire and the history of racial inequality / Caroline Knowles. -- The historiography of immigrants and ethnic minorities: Britain compared with the USA / Panikos Panayi. -- Teaching race in cultural studies: a ten-step programme of personal development / Gargi Bhattacharyya. -- Ethnicity etcetera: social anthropological points of view / Richard Jenkins. -- 'Race' in psychology: teaching the subject / Karen Henwood and Ann Phoenix. -- Political science encounters 'race' and 'ethnicity' / Rupert Taylor. -- 'The approval of headquarters': race and ethnicity in English studies / Maria Lauret. -- Constructions of 'race', place and discipline: geographies of 'racial' identity and racism / Alastair Bonnett. -- Peopling the past: approaches to 'race' and ethnicity in archaeology / Sian Jones

This article explores the role African American Studies has played in responding to the quandary of multiple consciousness as initially outlined by Du Bois, arguing that the origins of African American Studies were informal but nonetheless incisive in its analysis, as can be see in such works as David Walker's Appeal. When taken as a hemispheric phenomenon (as opposed to a North American boundedness), certain fundamental themes reoccur in both the informal and the subsequent formal scholarship, such as the condition of exploitative labor extraction, the relationship to Africa, and the transnational linkages and meanings of the diasporic experience. The article ends with a call to marry prescription and praxis.

Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century. Edward A. Alpers.The Traditional History of the Jie of Uganda. John Lamphear. Oxford Studies in African Affairs, John D. Hargreaves and George Shepperson, eds.Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Joseph C. Miller. Oxford Studies in African Affairs, John D. Hargreaves and George Shepperson, eds.Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. Ivor Wilks.

Two recent conferences illustrate on-going debates in African studies and dramatically reflect some of the major issues in African politics. Convening in Addis Ababa, December 9-19,1973, the Third International Congress of Africanists adopted a broad theme: "The Economic, Social, Political, Scientific and Cultural Development of Africa." The Ninth Annual Social Science Conference of the East African Universities, which met in Dar es Salaam, December 18-20, 1973, focused on "Rural Development."

In comparison with other ethnic groups in the U.S., the Arab-American community has received little study. In part this is due, no doubt, to its relatively small size, which is estimated to be about one and one half to two millions. Recently however, there has been an ethnic revival in the urban areas of the U.S. It became obvious in the late '60s and early '70's that many members of ethnic groups had not "melted", had not lost their pride and cultural values, and that some had been forced to be ashamed of their foreign origin in public, and lived in a form of dual existence. The politics of ethnicity, always a part of the American class and political structure, also became more publically discussed in the 1960s. In large part this was due to the success of the Black expressions of identity and unity, but in the case of the Middle Eastern Arab communities, it was also in response to the conflicts in the Mid-East, and to the U.S. policies in relation to those conflicts. The heavy governmental support of the expanding settler state of Israel, and the inability to find expression of the Arab side through the mass media caused a growing alienation from U.S. policies and a new feeling of cultural and political awareness. This was particularly true after the 1967 Mid-East War, and more recently as a result of such a policy as Operation Boulder, a special surveillance policy instituted by President Nixon which specifically included Arab "ethnics." The October War and the oil situation has also added a new and different dimension. It should be added, that in certain of the social sciences, there is a renewed emphasis upon migration studies, both in the national and international context.