Racism

Martin Bulmer is Foundation Fund Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is the editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies, in which he has been involved since 1988. His most recent book is Citizenship Today, edited with Tony Rees (1996) and he is Academic Director of the Question Bank, part of the ESRC Centre for Applied Social Surveys, established in 1995. He has wide experience of editing and publishing in British social science, and previously held a social policy appointment at LSE for 17 years, where he taught the main undergraduate course in race and ethnic relations for many years.John Solomos is now Professor of Sociology at South Bank University. Prior to this he was Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton, before which he was Reader in Public Policy, Birkbeck College, London, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick.

There is a strong sense of narrative and connected discussion, while many of the pieces have such individual strenghths and independence of voice that they are likely to encourage further reading. The result is a substantial collection that can be used for teaching or research.

• INTRODUCTION; RACIST IDEAS; INSTITUTIONAL FORMS OF RACISM: SLAVERY, IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM; RACISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; RACIST MOVEMENTS; THEORIES OF RACISM; RACISM AND THE STATE; ANTI-RACISM; THE FUTURE OF RACISM; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.