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Exploring the key legal issues in combating race discrimination, Race Matters provides readers with a detailed understanding of the issue of inequality. At its heart is an aim to increase the likelihood of achieving racial equality at both the national and international levels - in so doing it examines the primary role of legislation and its impact on the court process. It also discusses the two most important trade agreements of our day - the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union Treaty - in a historical and compelling analysis of racial discrimination. By providing a detailed examination of the relationship between race and the law, the book will be an important resource for those concerned with equality.

"This book explores how the ideas we have about race are produced and reproduced in everyday acts of consumption, and gives us a new way of thinking about the centrality of race to our lives. It argues that consumption is not a superficial leisure activity, but plays a very important role in shaping our beliefs about others: it is through the products we buy, the games we play, the TV we watch, the restaurants we eat at, the charities we give to and the holidays we take that we make sense of other groups and cultures. It is also through acts of racial consumption that we communicate our own identities, and express our fears and desires. Providing an accessible and highly readable overview of the latest research, an introduction to critical methodologies, and a detailed reading of a range of images, texts, products, sites and artifacts, Consuming Race gives students of sociology, media and cultural studies the opportunity to make connections between academic debates and their own everyday practices of consumption"--

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Deadline: March 15, 2024

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Defining Race: The Pseudoscientific Concept -- Chapter 1 Race in America: Social Constructs and Social Realities—An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Revisiting Race and Racism: A Critical Examination of a Pathology of Oppression -- Chapter 3 Race and Racism in American Society: Evolution toward New Thought -- Chapter 4 Socially Misconstrued Usage of the Racial Concept in Contemporary America -- Chapter 5 Race, Ethnicity, and Culture -- Part II Defining Ourselves -- Chapter 6 Crafting the Color Line: The Development of Racial Identity in American Jurisprudence -- Chapter 7 Race and Social Identity in the Obama Age: A View from behind the Veil -- Chapter 8 Race and Social Privilege in America -- Chapter 9 Hispanic/Latino Identity as Racial Misnomer -- Chapter 10 Who and What Are American Indians? -- Part III Conversations on Race -- Chapter 11 America: The Miscegenous Nation -- Chapter 12 Teaching about Race and Racism: Preparing Future Generations -- Chapter 13 Success Matters: Reconceptualizing Schools Free from Institutionalized Racism and Capitalistic Constructs -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part IV Contemporary Manifestations -- Chapter 1 Race and the Quest for U.S. Citizenship: Birthright Restrictionism and American Constitutionalism -- Chapter 2 Reparations as Social Policy: HR 40 and the Debate over the Study of Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Continuing Discrimination -- Chapter 3 Legal Perspectives on Race -- Chapter 4 Race and Social Justice -- Chapter 5 The Perpetuation of Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes in American Media

Examines the rise of the extreme right in European governments and society, anti-immigrant sentiments, racial prejudice and ethnic conflict, and other issues; 11 articles. Contents: The voice of modern hate, by Nicholas Fraser; Inside story, by Anneliese Rohrer; Problems of integration..., by Wolfgang Thierse; ...and a small school in Saxony, by Toralf Staud; Music to hate with, by Hélene Löow; Cost of conforming, by Diran Adebayo; Invisible citizens, by Stephen Bates; Portrait of a town, by Michel Samson; Neighbours, by Anna Bikont; Remembrance, by Jan Tomasz Gross; Who's afraid of Europe? by Slavenka Drakulic.

BACKGROUND: The founders of Hereditas envisioned that race biology would be a major subject that had social applications with utmost importance in the near future. Anthropometrics was in this context understood to be the pure and eugenics the applied science. Sweden had a long tradition in physical anthropometry. Herman Lundborg, member of the advisory board of Hereditas, united the anthropometric and eugenic approaches in a synthesis. He was the first head of the Institute for Race Biology in Sweden. The contents of Hereditas reflect the development of race biology in the Nordic countries. CONCLUSIONS: The initial enthusiasm for applied race biology did not last long. In the 1920's Hereditas carried papers on both physical anthropology and eugenics. Most paper dealt, however, with human genetics without eugenic content. Two papers, published in 1921 and 1939 show how the intellectual climate had changed from positive to negative. Finally only human genetics prevailed as the legitimate study of the human race or humankind. A belated defense of eugenics published in 1951 did not help; geneticists had abandoned anthropometrics for good around the year 1940 and eugenics about a decade later. In spite of that, eugenic legislation was amended astonishingly late, in the 1970's. The development was essentially similar in all Nordic countries.