The Authors: George J. Sefa Dei is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He has published extensively in the areas of race, class, and gender.Leeno Luke Karumanchery is co-author of Removing the Margins: The Challenges and Possibilities of Inclusive Schooling and is Chair of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association’s sub-committee on anti-racism.Nisha Karumanchery-Luik received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She teaches Women’s Studies and is on the Editorial Board of Directors for Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe.

«Absolutely brilliant! In the book, ‘Playing the Race Card’, the authors have woven a magnificent argument against skin color privilege and have managed to engage us in the possibility of transcending racism. This book makes a difference in our lives and must be read.» (Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University, Philadelphia, Author of ‘Erasing Racism’)«This book is an important addition to the growing critical literature on whiteness and white racism. At a time when social theory is becoming ever more complex and diverse, there is a danger that such analyses will be rendered ‘academic’ in the very worst sense of the word – as disengaged, self-satisfied and ultimately meaningless in the struggle for equity. This book stands apart by grounding its analyses in a refusal to accept simple answers and a determination to affect real antiracist change.» (David Gillborn, University of London, Institute of Education, Editor, ‘Race Ethnicity & Education’)«This book should be essential reading for anyone interested in probing below the surface of race and racism. Using colonialist, post-colonial, and poststructural frameworks, Dei, Karumanchery, and Karumanchery-Luik weave a lucid theoretical analysis of race as constituted both historically and in everyday life, for the purpose of building anti-racist consciousness, community and agency. This book is especially valuable today for its forthrightness in naming the racism embedded in on-going forms of white, Western imperialism.» (Christine Sleeter, California State University, Monterey Bay, Editor, ‘The Social Context of Education’)