New Geographies of Race and Racism

In recent years geographers interested in ethnicity, 'race' and racism have extended their focus from examining geographies of segregation and racism to exploring cultural politics, social practice and everyday geographies of identity and experience. This edited collection illustrates this new work and includes research on youth and new ethnicities; the contested politics of 'race' and racism; intersections of ethnicity, religion and 'race' and the theorisation and interrogation of whiteness. Case studies from the UK and Ireland focus on the intersections of 'race' and nation and the specificities of place in discourses of racilisation and identity. A key feature of the book is its engagement with a range of methodological approaches to examining the significance of race including ethnography, visual methodologies and historical analysis.

1: Introduction; Part 1: Racing Histories and Geographies; 2: Whiteness and the West; 3: It's Only Political Correctness – Race and Racism in British History; 4: Belonging in Britain – Father's Hands; 5: On the Significance of Being White; Part 2: Race, Place and Politics; 6: East End Bengalis and the Labour Party – the End of a Long Relationship?; 7: Integration and the Politics of Visibility and Invisibility in Britain; 8: One Scotland, Many Cultures; 9: Politics, Race and Nation; 10: Managing ‘Race' in a Divided Society; 11: Race and Immigration in Contemporary Ireland; 12: The ‘New Geography' of Ethnicity in England and Wales?; 13: The Problem with Segregation; 14: After the Cosmopolitan? New Geographies of Race and Racism; Part 3: Race, Space and ‘Everyday' Geographies; 15: The Precarious and Contradictory Moments of Existence for an Emergent British Asian Gay Culture; 16: Encountering South Asian Masculinity through the Event; 17: Everyday Multiculture and the Emergence of Race; 18: Everyday Geographies of Marginality and Encounter in the Multicultural City; 19: Young People's Geographies of Racism and Anti-racism; 20: Investigations into Diasporic ‘Cosmopolitanism'; 21: Afterword

Dr Claire Dwyer is a Senior Lecturer and Dr Caroline Bressey is a Lecturer, both in the Department of Geography, University College London, UK