Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text both illuminates and moves forward debates over 'race' and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy.

General Introduction
PART ONE: ANTIRACISM: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS
Changing the Subject? Racism, Culture and Education - Ali Rattansi
The End of Antiracism - Paul Gilroy
`It¿s racism what dunnit¿ - Philip Cohen
Hidden Narratives in Theories of Racism
Feminism and Antiracism - Caroline Knowles and Sharmila Mercer
Difference, Diversity and Differentiation - Avtar Brah
PART TWO: `US¿ AND `THEM¿
The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India - Gauri Viswanathan
Black Bodies, White Bodies - Sander L Gilman
Racism, Representation, Psychoanalysis - Claire Pajaczkowska and Lola Young
The Fact of Blackness - Frantz Fanon
PART THREE: COMMUNITY AND DIASPORA
Colonialism and Humanism - Robert A Young
New Ethnicities - Stuart Hall
British Asian Muslims and the Rushdie Affair - Tariq Modood
Fundamentalism, Multi-Culturalism and Women in Britain - Nira Yuval-Davis