A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies

Publisher’s “companions” come in a variety of levels. Blackwell’s Companions in Cultural Studies (four published, four in preparation) are decidedly intellectual in nature. From the series statement that “This series aims to provide theoretically ambitious but accessible‐volumes”, through the cover blurb’s “race and ethnicity are the modalities through which other forms of inequality are lived and comprehended” (rather sweeping, surely!), to chapter titles such as Critical Race Feminism; Racism and Ritualised Hostility; The Fact of Hybridity; and The Salience of Ethnoreligious Identities in the Middle East, we are obviously swimming in deep intellectual waters and studying in university library reading‐rooms....