Book Reviews

This useful reader brings together some of the best work in the study of race and ethnicity in six separate sections: namely origins and transformations; sociology, race and social theory; racism and anti-Semitism; colonialism, race and the other; feminism, difference and identity; changing boundaries and spaces. The collection welcomes new directions in cultural studies and post-modernism, sometimes at the expense of more diverse perspectives, while most of the focus is on Europe and the United States. Although the relationship between race and nation is only indirectly addressed, it should prove a stimulating guide for undergraduate students interested in the racialised context of nationalism.