Race and Society by Tina G Patel

Race and Society by Tina G Patel

An approachable, contemporary undergraduate guide to one of the core areas of social science teaching.

The contemporary power and dynamics of race and racialization require fundamental critical interrogationThis book is an excellent example of such work, providing a fascinating set of case studies and a concise and engaging text which will be invaluable to students in this field. Tina Patel has provided us with a carefully considered and authoritative pathway into and through this core sociological terrain.

 

-- Ian Law
Issues about race and racism have become almost daily media fare.  By drawing on contemporary and high profile cases and examples from popular culture Tina Patel provides a guide that takes students from the everyday into academic debates. This makes for an engaging and lively introduction to the subject – the book will be welcomed by students seeking to come to grips with thinking about race in the contemporary world. -- Karim Murji

Race and Society is both richly theoretically informed and admirably accessible. Tina Patel’s new text is written with clarity and pedagogical flair, drawing upon up-to-date and striking examples: an invaluable resource.

-- Scott Poynting
Tina Patel’s book Race and Society renders race-thinking sociologically, and makes it accessible to undergraduate students. The idea of race and the associated historical knowledge making and re-making practices, rather than being a separate and compartmentalised minority experience which is diminishing, continues to grow in every more troubling and dynamic forms. Making this arena accessible and engaging for students is highly necessary, and something the book achieves really well. Covering an excellent range of topics in the aim to establish a critical understanding of constructions, practices and impacts of race and racialising practices, this book explores a wide range of issues contextualised by both historical and contemporary case studies. The case studies and study questions are most useful for facilitating group work with students, and give the text a practical ‘handbook’ feel – important for mediating what can be a potentially alienating intellectual and theoretical experience for students beginning this process -- Harshad Keval

Dr Tina G. Patel is a senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford. Tina’s research and teaching interests relate to race/racism, surveillance, crime, and discrimination in the criminal justice system. Tina specialises in undertaking qualitative research with excluded communities, who have often been presented as problematic and deviant. Tina has a number of publications in these areas, and is co-author of Race, Crime and Resistance (2011), and sole-author of Race and Society (2017), both published by Sage.

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ISBN 13	9781446287392
ISBN 10	1446287394
Title	Race and Society
Author	Tina G Patel
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2016-11-22
Number of pages	200
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