Globalization and Race

“An interesting and useful book that will undoubtedly appear on many reading lists, this volume is welcome for its explicit aim of paying close attention to global processes in the construction of race.” - Peter Wade, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This volume is a must read for researchers, policymakers, and students interested in understanding how, as our authors remind us, contemporary transformations command us to think about racial formation, not as an end in itself, but as a process—one that articulates with other processes on a global scale.” - Yolanda T. Moses, Journal of African American History

“Through this book, I have come to realize the changing meanings and politics of blackness, and how the contemporary processes of globalization are both changing and being shaped by these changes. As a reader you are bound to realize the same.” - Olasunkanmi Sholarin, Leeds African Studies Bulletin

“Globalization and Race will be an invaluable resource for courses on diaspora, anthropology, and cultural studies. The keen attention to subjectivities created through discourses and practices that figure race, gender, class, national, and continental differences in global contexts makes this volume distinctive.” - Paulla A. Ebron, author of Performing Africa

“Contrary to the glib forecasts of many academic and journalistic pundits, race is not going away; rather it is energetically reorganizing itself and working through new global divisions. Globalization and Race examines this new context by inquiring into the various ways that emerging global processes are fundamentally reshaping the way people of African descent experience and theorize racial identity.” - David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

“Globalization and Race is an invaluable resource for anyone in the humanities or the social sciences who wants to understand how the contemporary politics of race is being re-conceptualized. The essays cover a wide range of topics and provide new theoretical vocabularies not only for understanding the globalizing forces of capital, labor, and technologies, but for the new hierarchies of racial ordering which emerge in their wake. This will quickly become the standard work in the field.” - Hazel V. Carby, author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America