New Geographies of Race and Racism

Dr Claire Dwyer is a Senior Lecturer and Dr Caroline Bressey is a Lecturer, both in the Department of Geography, University College London, UK

'This volume will find a firm and deserved place in the literature on geographies of race and racism. It stimulates reflections on geographical, political and policy discourses on race, reminds us of the historicity of ideas about race and racism, draws attention to the microgeographies of everyday life to demonstrate how ideas of race are made and remade, and frames new debates about a "post-race" politics. The essays are thoughtful and incisive, and stimulate questions well beyond Britain.' Lily Kong, National University of Singapore 'The complex, theoretically divergent contributions in this edited volume dissect contemporary, but always historicised, geographies of race and anti-racism in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. They are a must read for advocates of space and place based studies concerning current political and policy based issues.' Linda Peake, York University, Canada 'Claire Dwyer and Caroline Bressey's 2008 book New Geographies of Race and Racism is a timely and essential collection of essays which investigate the diverse ways in which race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, racism and anti-racism are created, re-created, imagined, constructed and mobilised across different geographical scales and spaces.' Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 'As someone who studies racial politics and teaches seminars on race and racism, I already see where many of these chapters can enter my work and teaching and suspect that I am not alone in this sentiment.' Social and Cultural Geography 'This is a book I cannot recommend highly enough. It is extremely readable and accessible for undergraduate and postgraduate students or anyone interested in contemporary (and historical) notions of 'race' and the constantly changing notions of racism(s). Moreover, given the range of theoretical and methodological approaches, it is an ideal book for use in teaching - both as an example of the application for different methods, but also for use in seminar groups to provoke interesting discussion and debate.' The Geographical Journal 'The book reinforces the importance of examining how race and place are inextricable in modern times (and past times), and thus challenges theories that promote the idea that globalisation has led to a sense of placelessness, whilst providing readers will fascinating case studies about the lived realities of race and racism in the UK and Ireland'. The Sociological Imagination 'The book reinforces the importance of examining how race and place are inextricable in modern times (and past times), and thus challenges theories that promote the idea that globalisation has led to a sense of placelessness, whilst providing readers will fascinating case studies about the lived realities of race and racism in the UK and Ireland'. The Sociological Imagination

• 1: Introduction; Part 1: Racing Histories and Geographies; 2: Whiteness and the West; 3: It's Only Political Correctness – Race and Racism in British History; 4: Belonging in Britain – Father's Hands; 5: On the Significance of Being White; Part 2: Race, Place and Politics; 6: East End Bengalis and the Labour Party – the End of a Long Relationship?; 7: Integration and the Politics of Visibility and Invisibility in Britain; 8: One Scotland, Many Cultures; 9: Politics, Race and Nation; 10: Managing ‘Race' in a Divided Society; 11: Race and Immigration in Contemporary Ireland; 12: The ‘New Geography' of Ethnicity in England and Wales?; 13: The Problem with Segregation; 14: After the Cosmopolitan? New Geographies of Race and Racism; Part 3: Race, Space and ‘Everyday' Geographies; 15: The Precarious and Contradictory Moments of Existence for an Emergent British Asian Gay Culture; 16: Encountering South Asian Masculinity through the Event; 17: Everyday Multiculture and the Emergence of Race; 18: Everyday Geographies of Marginality and Encounter in the Multicultural City; 19: Young People's Geographies of Racism and Anti-racism; 20: Investigations into Diasporic ‘Cosmopolitanism'; 21: Afterword