Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: THEORISING RACE AND RACISM; FIRST IMPRESSIONS; THE IDIOM OF RACE; RACE AND RACISM; RACE RELATIONS; THE CONSERVATION OF RACES; RACIAL BELIEFS IN AMERICA; THE NATURE OF RACE RELATIONS; RACE: WHAT IT IS NOT; RACE RELATIONS IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY; APROPOS THE IDEA OF 'RACE' AGAIN; OLD AND NEW IDENTITIES, OLD AND NEW ETHNICITIES; RACIAL KNOWLEDGE; THE THEORETICAL STATUS OF THE CONCEPT OF RACE; THE JEWS: MYTH AND COUNTER-MYTH; ELEMENTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM.ARE JEWS WHITE?; LOOKING JEWISH, SEEING JEWS; THE FACT OF BLACKNESS; IMPERIAL CULTURE; THE WHITE FAMILY OF MAN; UNDER WESTERN EYES; SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS; 'RACE', TIME AND THE REVISION OF MODERNITY; RACISM AND FEMINISM; WHITE WOMAN LISTEN!; BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT; RACE AND RIGHTS; DIFFERENCE, DIVERSITY, DIFFERENTIATION; WHITE WOMEN, RACE MATTERS; BLACK FEMINISM AND THE ACADEMY; BLACK SKIN/WHITE BOARDS; THE DIALECTICS.Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web.