My new edited collection, Racism and Sociology, co-edited with Wulf D. Hund is out. It is part of the Racism Analysis Yearbook series published by Lit Verlag. The book includes cutting edge papers by Les Back and Maggie Tate, Sirma Bilge, Barnor Hesse, Silvia Maeso and Marta Araujo and Felix Losing in addition to Wulf and I.
Contents: Wulf D. Hund: Racism in White Sociology. From Adam Smith to Max Weber – Alana Lentin: Postracial Silences. The Othering of Race in Europe – Felix Lösing: From the Congo to Chicago. Robert E. Park’s Romance with Racism – Les Back, Maggie Tate: Telling About Racism. W.E.B. Du Bois, Stuart Hall and Sociology’s Reconstruction – Barnor Hesse: Racism’s Alterity. The After-Life of Black Sociology – Sirma Bilge: Whitening Intersectionality. Evanescence of Race in Intersectionality Scholarship – Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, Marta Araújo: The Politics of (Anti-)Racism. Academic Research and Policy Discourse in Europe