CLAIRE ALEXANDER is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economic and Political Science, UK. She has researched and published on race, youth and masculinity in Britain. Publications include The Art of Being Black (Oxford University Press, 1996) and The Asian Gang (Berg 2000).CAROLINE KNOWLES is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Bedlam on the Streets (Routledge 2000), Family Boundaries: The Invention of Normality and Dangerousness (Broadview Press, 1996), Race, Discourse and Labourism (Routledge 1992) and joint editor of Resituating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Culture (Broadview Press, 1996).

• Foreword; H.CarbyIntroduction; C.Knowles & C.AlexanderMapping Subjectivities; D.GoldbergPART 1: SPACE & DIASPORA"Home from Home": Youth, Belonging and Place; L.BackDiaspora Politics Through Style: Racialized and Politicized Fashion in Global Markets; P.BhachuGlobal and Local Articulations of Asian Identity; M.SongComparing New Migration with Old: Exploring the Issue of Asylum and Settlement; K.ReedMaking Whiteness: British Lifestyle Migrants in Hong Kong; C.Knowles, Photographs by D.HarperPART 2: THE BODY & SUBJECTIVITYBrilliant Bodies, Fragile Minds: Race, Sport and the Mind/Body Split; B.St.LouisRemembering Bodies, Healing Histories: The Emotional Politics of Everyday Freedom; D.NobleUses of the Exotic: Body, Narrative, Mixedness; S.AliFear and Loathing in Front of a Mirror; O.StuartCulture, Sexuality and Identity in an Ethnic Minority Community: The Case of Greek-Cypriot Gay Men in London; C.PhellasEmbodying Violence: 'Riots', Dis/Order and the Private Lives of 'the Asian Gang'; C.AlexanderAfterwords; D.Goldberg.