This book takes the reader through key analytical debates drawing on a range of case study material from around the globe, including: Britain and migration; America as a post-slavery society; Hawai'i as a land dispossession society; and Malaysia as a 'plural' post-colonial society. In doing so, it addresses the question of whether there is a universal resurgence of ethnicity and coolly addresses competing theories of ethnicity and racism. Providing the reader with a clear conceptual frame within which to see long-standing debates afresh, it will be of relevance and value to both students in a range of social sciences and to specialists in the field.

Author Biography

Steve Fenton is currently professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol. He has taught in universities in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, where he was a visiting British Council Scholar at Massey University. He is the author of Durkheim and Modern Sociology.