Racialized Boundaries

by Floya Anthias, Nira Yuval-Davis

This wide-ranging and accessible book examines race in relation to social divisions such as ethnicity, gender and class. It provides a major new approach to studying the boundaries of race, and will be of interest to students of sociology, ethnic studies and gender studies.

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 24, 1992

Reviews

[Rhiannon Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some aspects of this book's analysis are now dated, but it's useful to have some reminders about how long this work has actually been happening (for example, there are some insightful comments about the racialisation of Islam in Britain from long pre-9/11) and the overview of theories to the point of publication is still a helpful contribution. The discussion of the failures of feminism (through over-reliance on strategic essentialism) and the problems of connecting a race-based with a class-based analysis are highlights, if 'when will we ever learn?' can be called a highlight.