"A conceptually power-packed volume that is at once erudite and accessible, expansive and focused, true to sociological traditions yet stimulatingly exploratory. Scholars and students will be served very well by this absorbing, far-reaching enquiry into ethnicity and race." - Raymond Taras, Tulane University "This concise, profound, and beautifully written book offers a tour de force across the landscape of race and ethnicity by a young author who masters them all." - Per Mouritsen, Aarhus University This book offers an accessible discussion of both foundational and novel concepts in the study of race and ethnicity. Each account will help readers become familiar with how long standing and contemporary arguments within race and ethnicity studies contribute to our understanding of social and political life more broadly. Providing an excellent starting point with which to understand the contemporary relevance of these concepts, Nasar Meer offers an up-to-date and engaging consideration of everyday examples from around the world. This is an indispensable guide for both students and established researchers interested in the study of race and ethnicity.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Why a New Book on Race and Ethnicity? Carving Nature at its Joints Identity and Dispersion Reflexivity How to Use This Book ANTISEMITISM The Object-Subject Distinction From Bigitory to Racism Hierarchies and the New Antisemitism BLACKNESS An Etymology of Blackness Blackness and Double Consciousness Blackness as a Political Identity The Black Atlantic CITIZENSHIP The Challenge Of Citizenship What the Greeks and Romans Did For Us Marshall and Beyond: Equality and Culture National and Post-National Citzenship Citizenship and New Social Movements DIASPORA Co-Ordinates of Diaspora Diaspora and Groups Diasporic Space EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES Foot Races And Starting Lines Groups and Experiences Recognition or Redistribution ETHNICITY Subjectivities and Primoridalisms Ethnic Boundaries And Ethnic Assertiveness New and Old Ethnicities Boundaries and Drawbacks EURO-ISLAM Euro-Islam as Multidirectional Process Euro-Islam as Muslim Adaptation Re-Locating the Muslim Subject HEALTH AND WELLBEING Ethnicity and Health Disease and Categories Ethnic Variations HYBRIDITY Hybridity as Translation Hybritity as Identity INTEGRATION Two Uses Diversity and Integration Integration as a Vortex Issue INTERCULTURALISM Communication Beyond Co-Existence? Free From Cultural Groups A Stronger Sense of the Whole Illiberalism And Culture INTERSECTIONALITY Structural Or Political Intersectionality? Intra-Categorical, Anti-Categorical, and Inter-Categorical Unitary, Multiple and Intersectional ISLAMOPHOBIA Challenges and Responses Intersectional Islamophobia: Gender & Civilisation MIGRATION Recent Trends in Migration Three Ages of Mass Migration Theorising Migration MIXEDNESS Mixedness as Population Change Mixedness as Racial Formation MULTICULTURALISM A Philiosphical Rationale Political Provenance(s) Intellectual Calibrations Known Knowns, Known Unknowns The Backlash and Beyond NATIONALISM Nationalism and the State What is a Nation? Imagined Communities Ethnies And Pre-Modernity The Bad and the Banal ORIENTALISM Muslim Society A Style of Thought Neo-Orientalism? POLITICAL PARTICIPATION The Function Of Political Rights Political Participation as the Franchise Securing Representation POST-COLONIALISM Post or Present? Politics, Culture or Both? Addressing or Ignoring the Post-Colonial? RACE History and Categorisation A Biological Category Post-Race or the Paradox of Race? RACE RELATIONS Origins British Race Relations Six Orders of Race Relations Status and Party RACIALISATION Intellectual Provenances Historical Racialisation Contemporary Racialisation Positive Racialisaiton and Model Minorities Institutional Racism RECOGNITION The Range of Recognition Phenomenology and Ethics Critical Theory and Race Multicultural Turns Democratic Participation The Emergence of Misrecognition SECULARISM Contemporary Meanings Secularism and State Securalism And Autonomy Secularism and Citizenship Postsecularism SUPER-DIVERSITY A Concept For Our Time What is New that is ‘Super’? TRANSNATIONALISM Social Morphology and Consciousness Cultural Reproduction and Capital Political Engagement and Space WHITENESS White or Western? Racial Supremacy and Privilege Class and Negotiating Identity Secularisation The Conditions of Transnationalism