Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself - Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World presents an alternative account of ethnicity. It will appeal not only to sociologists, but to anyone working in the fields of cultural studies, race and ethnicity, globalization, migration and anthropology.

Gargi Bahttacharyya lectures in Sociology in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University, UK

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethnicities, Values and Old-fashioned Racism, Gargi Bhattacharyya; Chapter 2 Teaching Race and Racism in the 21 st Century: Thematic Considerations 1 Previously published in Howard Winant. New Racial Politics: Globalism, Difference, Justice, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. © 2003 Howard Winant. Also in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society (Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, vol. 6, nos. 3-4 (2004)., Howard Winant; Chapter 3 Diaspora Conversations: Ethics, Ethicality, Work and Life, Parminder Bhachu, Gargi Bhattacharyya; Chapter 4 Migrant Women's Networking: New Articulations of Transnational Ethnicity, Ronit Lentin; Chapter 5 'The people do what the political class isn't able to do': Antigypsyism, Ethnicity Denial and the Politics of Racism without Racism, Robbie McVeigh; Chapter 6 Violent Urban Protest - Identities, Ethics and Islamism, Max Farrar; Chapter 7 Beliefs, Boundaries and Belonging: African Pentecostals in Ireland, Abel Ugba; Chapter 8 On Being a 'Good' Refugee 1 We would like to thank Stephanie Linkogle for her detailed comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this chapter., John Gabriel, Jenny Harding; Chapter 9 Narrating Lived Experience in a Binational Community in Costa Rica, Carlos Sandoval García; Chapter 10 Conclusion: Ethnicity and Ethicality in an Unequal World, Gargi Bhattacharyya;