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"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 "[W]hat Meer offers with this distinctive new volume is a brief survey of the academic approach to key subjects in this area. For example, the entry titled 'Racialisation' opens with the provenance of the subject in the works of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon; then Meer traces debates about whether the concept can be projected back upon history ... Meer offers in-depth coverage of 28 concepts, including 'Citizenship,' 'Hybridity,' 'Intersectionality,' 'Post-colonialism,' 'Transnationalism,' and more... Students wanting a guide into the deeper realms of academic theorizing on race and ethnicity will be well served." - G. A. Lancaster, Choice 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.

Race. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies.

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The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides an up-to-date account of the situation of Muslims in Europe. Covering 46 countries of Europe in its broader sense, the Yearbook presents a country-by-country summary of essential data with basic statistics and evaluations of their reliability, surveys of legal status and arrangements, organisations, et cetera Data have been brought up to date from the previous volume. From 2012 onwards, the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe will continue as two separate publications. The Yearbook will remain the annual reference work for country surveys on Muslims in Europe. The former article and review sections of the Yearbook are now published as the new Journal of Muslims in Europe . The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe remains an important source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, and policy makers as well as scholars.

Muslims --- Social science / Discrimination & Race Relations --- Social science / Minority Studies --- Islam --- Europe --- Ethnic relations --- Muslims - Europe - Periodicals --- Islam - Europe - Periodicals --- Europe - Ethnic relations - Periodicals --- Ethnic relations.

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Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, Cyrus R. K. Patell compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures within “U.S. minority literature.” Drawing on recent theories of cosmopolitanism, Patell presents methods for mapping the overlapping concerns of the texts and authors of these literatures during the late twentieth century. He discusses the ways in which literary marginalization and cultural hybridity combine to create the grounds for literature that is truly “emergent” in Raymond Williams’s sense of the term—literature that produces “new meanings and values, new practices, new relationships and kinds of relationships” in tension with the dominant, mainstream culture of the United States. By enabling us to see the American literary canon through the prism of hybrid identities and cultures, these texts require us to reevaluate what it means to write (and read) in the American grain. Emergent U.S. Literatures gives readers a sense of how these foundational texts work as aesthetic objects—rather than merely as sociological documents—crafted in dialogue with the canonical tradition of so-called “American Literature,” as it existed in the late twentieth century, as well as in dialogue with each other.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Cosmopolitanism in literature. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors

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Is the use of mechanisms that only focus on the protection of individual human rights sufficient to protect the cultural identity of minorities? Much more can be achieved by adopting a system that applies the principles of equality and non-discrimination, and encompasses the recognition of a collective right to cultural identity. Culture and cultural identity are indeed important for the identification of groups and ethnicity. But are the Roma an ethnic group? Are they a minority? In answering these questions, Italy is used as a case study to illustrate the limits of non-discrimination provisions and the need to recognise the collective right to cultural identity.

Romanies --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies --- Bohemians (Romanies) --- Gipsies --- Gitanos --- Gypsies --- Kalderash --- Manush --- Roma (People) --- Romani --- Sinti --- Nomads --- Civil rights --- Italy --- Ethnic relations. --- Ethnic identity.

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This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth to thirteenth century Islamic Eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two institutions central to that social order-kinship and law-shaped their lives.

Cairo Genizah. --- Jewish women --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies. --- Religious life --- History --- Religious life. --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- To 1500. --- Egypt. --- Cairo Genizah --- Women, Jewish --- Women --- Genizah --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- E-books --- Jewish women - Egypt - Social conditions - History - To 1500 --- Jewish women - Religious life - Egypt - History - To 1500