Racializaton has become one of the central concepts in the study of race and racism. This volume brings together leading international scholars from a range of backgrounds to address key facets of the concept in a wide range of social and political arenas, including gender relations, policing, urban communities, youth cultures, immigration, and political life.

• Preface


• Introduction: Racialization in Theory and Practice


• 1: Brett St Louis: Racialization in the 'Zone of Ambiguity'


• 2: Michael Banton: Historical and Contemporary Modes of Racialization


• 3: Avtar Brah: Ambivalent Documents/Fugitive Pieces: Author, Text, Subject, and Racializations


• 4: David Theo Goldberg: Racial Americanization


• 5: Ann Phoenix: Remembered Racialization: Young People and Positioning in Differential Understandings


• 6: Vron Ware: The Power of Recall: Writing Against Racial Identity


• 7: Anoop Nayak: White Lives


• 8: Eugene McLaughlin: Recovering Blackness/Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail's Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence


• 9: Ghassan Hage: White Self-Racialization as Identity Fetishism: Capitalism and the Experience of Colonial Whiteness


• 10: Tony Kushner: Racialization and 'White European' Immigration to Britain


• 11: Philomena Essed: Gendered Preferences in Racialized Spheres: Cloning The Physician


• 12: Michael Keith: Racialization and hte Public Spheres of the City


• 13: Ali Rattansi: The Uses of Racialization: The Time-Spaces and Subject-Objects of the Raced Body