How can we use teaching and scholarship to end racism? This book examines the challenges of race critical public scholarship through discussions of working with social movements, collaborating with local communities, intervening in formal political spheres and negotiating the role of public intellectual.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Karim Murji is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, UK. He writes on cultural and policy studies of ethnicity and racism, and criminology. With John Solomos, he is the editor of Racialization: Studies in theory and practice (2005) and Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations. He is an Editor of the journal Sociology.

Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, UK. She has written on issues of racism and sexuality, global cultures of racism and the war on terror. Her recent work includes Dangerous Brown Men: Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the War on Terror (2008) and the edited collection Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World (2009).

Introduction: race critical public scholarship Gargi Bhattacharyya and Karim Murji

1. Emergent publics, critical ethnographic scholarship and race and ethnic relations Michael Keith

2. Women social justice scholars: risks and rewards of committing to anti-racism Philomena Essed

3. How can we live with ourselves? Universities and the attempt to reconcile learning and doing Gargi Bhattacharyya

4. For whom and for what is research on migration a contribution Carlos Sandoval-Garcia

5. How can we meet 'the demands of the day'? Producing an affective, reflexive, interpretive, public sociology of 'race' Max Farrar

6. 'Race', sexualities and the French public intellectual: an interview with Eric Fassin Steve Garner and Eric Fassin