Racism & Justice

Singh Bolaria is an adjuct professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Victoria. He has published in the area of race and race relations and the Sociology of Health. His latest books include Race and Racism in 21st Centry Canada: Continuity Complexity and Change (ed. with Sean P. Heir) Broadview Press, 2007. The Seikhs in Canada: Migration, Race, Class and Gender with G.S. Basran, Universityof Oxford Press, 2003.Sean Heir is an Associate Professr of Sociology at the University of Victoria. He holds a PhD from McMaster University.Seans current research is concentrated in two areas: public camera surveillance and racism. He is currently preparing books on racism and the complexity of social change (to be published by Broadview Press) and the establishment of public camera surveillance in Canada (to be published by UBC Press). He is also currently preparing edited volumes on critical debates in racism studies and surveillance and social problems (both with Fernwood Publishing).Dr. Hier’s graduate students have completed Master’s theses on Public Camera Surveillance (2004), Media Representation (2005), Visual Culture (2005), Alternative Communities (2007), and Public Opinion and Surveillance (2007). He currently supervises theses on CCTV Surveillance (PhD), Pre-Electronic Surveillance (PhD), Resisting Surveillance (MA), Governance and Representation (MA), Realism and Panic (MA), and Realism and Justice (MA).Daniel Lett is a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria. His central research interests are surveillance, racism, moral panics and moral regulation.

• : Preface: The Prospects for Post-Raciality: Introduction: Paradoxes of Progress: Racism, Justice, and Social Change in Canada (Sean P. Hier and Daniel Lett): Section I: Essentialism, Identity and Difference: Introduction to Section I: Critical Race Theory: Towards a Post-Essentialist Form of Social Critique (Rita Dhamoon): Let’s Not All Go ‘Post’-al: Towards a Genealogy of Essentialism (Alicja Muszynski): The Way Forward: Reforming the Language of Race and Ethnicity (Michael Banton): The Politics of Provenance: Genetics, Culture and Identity (Robert Carter): Approaching Intersection: Individual Lives, Multiple Inequalities (Lori Wilkinson): Section II: Racism, Inequality and Change: Introduction to Section II: On the Merits of Orientalism: A Heretical Essay on the Sociology of Knowledge (Peyman Vahabzadeh): Modernity, Citizenship and Racialization: Jim Crowism and Lynching Campaigns in the Post-Emancipation Southern United States (Meir Amor): The Sydney Cronulla Beach Riots: The Contexts and Contradictions of the Racialization of Young People (Jock Collins and Carol Reid): Political Apologies and Racial Reconciliation (Graham Dodds): Section III: Multiculturalism, Antiracism and Justice: Introduction to Section III: Recasting Racial Justice: Beyond the Economy/Culture Divide (Adam Molnar): Racism, Justice, and Social Cohesion in Canada (Charles Ungerleider): Competing Anti-racisms and the Interpretation of Racism in the Post-Multicultural Era (Alana Lentin): Towards a Grassroots Multiculturalism? A Genealogical Analysis of Solidarity Practices in Canadian Activism Today (Mohamed Abdou, Richard JF Day, Sean Haber): The Postfascist Condition: The Politics of Anti-Racism and Neofascism (William Little): Bibliography