ISBN:
9781137079244
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8009/05
Keywords:
Race relations--History--21st century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The 21st Century has seen important changes in the role of race and ethnicity. Exploring original research, empirical data and theory, this book examines major questions and issues around housing, employment, asylum, crime and health. Written by experts in the field, the text gives students of sociology useful insight into race and ethnicity today.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Key Questions in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity -- 2 Housing and Neighbourhoods: A UK and European Perspective -- 3 New Communities: Asylum Seekers and Dispersal -- 4 The Continuing Significance of 'Race': Racism, Anti-racist Politics and Labour Markets -- 5 Community Cohesion and National Security: Rethinking Policing and Race -- 6 Health and Health Care -- 7 Education -- 8 Media Representations of Diversity: The Power of the Mediated Image -- 9 Identity and Public Opinion -- 10 Race and Ethnicity in Britain: Into the 21st Century -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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