Intro; RACISM, POLICY AND POLITICS; Contents; Preface; Introduction. 'The changing same'; Outline of the book; 1. Racial reality and unreality; The unreality of 'race': from political economy to social construction; Rethinking race and science; Beyond the dichotomies; 2. Racialisation; Racial formation and racialisation; Tracing the origins of racialisation; Neo-Marxism and its critics; Post-Marxist extensions of racialisation; 3. Race critical scholarship and public engagement1; The 'extra academy': from the margins to the centre?; Public intellectuals and scholar-activists., Public sociology in the neoliberal university4. Sociology and institutional racism; Black Power and white sociology in the US and in Britain; Scarman, Macpherson and the media; 5. The impacts of social science; A 'simple, practical concept'? Instrumentalising institutional racism; Instrumental and reflexive approaches to racial attacks; Policy, instrumentality and reflexivuty; 6. The end(s) of institutional racism; Engaging with policy and politics; From 'golden circle' to 'academic nuances'; A 'sterile debate'?; 7. Racialised numerics; Categorising and enumerating race., and A representative workforceThe paradoxes of the BME target; 8. Framing riots; The race and policing frame; The post-political frame; The resistance to neoliberalism frame; Beyond framing; References; Index.
Summary
This book analyses and bridges the gap between critical social research on race and politics by reviewing the academic field of race theorising and scholarship, covering changes in race and racism debates in recent decades, and assessing the extent, scope, and limits of academic engagements with, and impact on, policy and politics.
