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  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • What does race do?

    What does race do? Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 38, Issue 8, 2015 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1401-1406 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1016064 Alana Lentin, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis University of Western Sydney, Australia In writing on ‘John Rex’s Main Mistake’, Michael Banton reveals more about Banton than he does about…

  • Four Statements on the Race Question

    Four Statements on the Race Question United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1969 54 pages Foreword This booklet reproduces the texts of four statements on the race question prepared by groups of experts brought together by Unesco in 1950, 1951, 1964 and 1967, as part of its programme to make known the scientific…

  • Racial Theories (2nd Edition)

    This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton’s classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific…

  • The overlapping concepts of race and colour in Latin America

    The overlapping concepts of race and colour in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 7, (July 2012) pages 1163-1168 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.657209 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I thank Ethnic and Racial Studies for the opportunity to participate in this symposium and I am honoured to be in conversation with Michael…

  • The Brazilian system of racial classification

    The Brazilian system of racial classification Ethnic and Racial Studies Published Online: 2011-12-05 6 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.632022 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Michael Banton’s text belongs to the long tradition of European social sciences which rejects the conceptual use of the lerm ‘race’ in sociological analyses. His work…

  • The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century

    The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 7, 2012 pages 1109-1131 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.605902 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology University of Bristol Some more recent evidence supports Du Bois’ prediction that the twentieth century would prove the century of the colour line. It indicates…

  • Finding, and correcting, my mistakes

    Finding, and correcting, my mistakes Sociology Volume 39, Number 3 (July 2005) pages 483–499 DOI: 10.1177/0038038505052488 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol Mistakes are inherent in the process of research but can illuminate it. Some of the author’s mistakes have been false assumptions shared with others of his generation. His early work…

  • The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race

    The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 127-140 DOI: 10.1177/1468796809354529 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol The word race has been used both to classify humans and to account for differences between those assigned to the resulting classes or taxa. The two…

  • The Sociological Implications of Demographic Diversity

    Any consideration of the relevance to the United Kingdom of Critical Race Theory should take account of the special factors in the USA that stimulated and shaped the character of the movement. It should also acknowledge the distinction between social theory and social practice. Social practice has usually to be considered within the frameworks of…