Wiley-Blackwell Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader

Review “Race, Identity, and Citizenship provide a much-needed critical perspective on race and radicalized inequalities in contemporary capitalist society. It is an outstanding collection which will prove enormously useful to both established scholars in the field and young students.” Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara "A thoughtful introduction to current intellectual discourse and decisive policy issues regarding race and ethnicity in a global context." Jose Hernandez, City University of New York <!--end--> Product Description In recent years, race and ethnicity have been the focus of theoretical, political, and policy debates. This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization. Contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Aronowitz, and Collette Guillaumin. From the Inside Flap This volume offers comparative and relational analyses of race, ethnicity, and culture at a time when boundaries designating radicalized groups are being radically redrawn. Particular attention is paid to how best to theorize “race relations” in the context of demographic shifts, changing class formations, and new forms of global dislocations. This comprehensive and timely reader covers a range of topics including critical race theory, class and nationality, multiracial feminism, mixed race, the whiteness debates, cultural citizenship, and globalization. The contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Arononwitz, Collette Guillaumin, Nira Yuval-Davis, and Maxine Baca Zinn. From the Back Cover This volume offers comparative and relational analyses of race, ethnicity, and culture at a time when boundaries designating radicalized groups are being radically redrawn. Particular attention is paid to how best to theorize “race relations” in the context of demographic shifts, changing class formations, and new forms of global dislocations. This comprehensive and timely reader covers a range of topics including critical race theory, class and nationality, multiracial feminism, mixed race, the whiteness debates, cultural citizenship, and globalization. The contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Arononwitz, Collette Guillaumin, Nira Yuval-Davis, and Maxine Baca Zinn. About the Author Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Latino Studies and Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and Visiting Professor of Political Economy and Social Policy in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-author of Latino Metropolis: Racialized Relations in Postindustrial Los Angeles (1998), and co-editor of The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society (Blackwell 1997), as well as co-editor of New American Destinies: A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration and Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader. He is currently on the editorial boards of The Latino Studies Journal, Socialist Review, Social Justice, and New Political Science. Louis F. Mir¢n is Chair of the Department of Education and Director of the Center for Collaborative Research in Education at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of The Social Construction Urban Schooling (1996) and Resisting Discrimination (1997). He has been a frequent commentator in both the print and broadcast media on educational issues of local and national interest. Jonathan Xavier Inda is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the