This book combines biographical and spatial analysis to provide an up-to-date account of the ways race and ethnicity operate in a global context. It examines:
- how race and ethnicity operate in the social world
- the making of race and ethnicity by the connections between people, spaces and places
- the ways race and ethnicity articulate current analytical themes in social science
- the ways in which broader structures of racial orders are apparent in everyday lives
- the ways in which places and spaces are raced and ethnicized
- the ways in which race is significant in the operation of globalization and global migration
- the making of whiteness