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RACE AND ETHNICITYRace and the LifecourseReadings from the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and AgeEdited by Diditi Mitra, Brookdale Community College,USA, Joyce Weil, University of Northern Colorado, USA"Almost all public discussion about race and ethnicityis expressed in terms of generalizations, sometimestaking account of history, almost never takingaccount of time lived by real human beings. This bookis one if the first to take account of time, aging, andthe life-course. An important contribution to ourunderstanding of issues which will not soon go away."- Harry R. Moody, Retired Vice President, AARP, andVisiting Professor, Fielding Graduate University, USA;Author of AGING: Concepts and Controversies (2011)Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this bookexamines the intersection of race and ethnic relationsand the life course.Contents: PART I: THE JOURNEY TO ADULTHOOD * PART II: ADULTHOOD AND MIDLIFE *PART III: AGING AND THE LATTER YEARSAugust 2014 UKAugust 2014 US272 pp 5 b/w tables, 4 figuresHardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$109.00 9781137379160Canadian RightsThe Politics of IslamophobiaRace, Power and FantasyDavid Tyrer, Liverpool John Moores University, UKThe latest title in the Decolonial Studies, PostcolonialHorizons series, The Politics of Islamophobia provides adefinitive contribution to the debates surrounding theunrecognized and largely under-theorized form of racismtowards the Muslim community.Contents: Acknowledgements * Prologue * 1. FramingIslamophobia * 2. Now you see me: fantasy and misrecognition* 3. Once more, with feeling: Islamophobia and racial politics* 4. Post-politics and Islamophobia * 5. Democrat, Moderate,Other * 6. Islamophobia beyond the war on terror * 7. Questions,questions, questions: reframing Islamophobia * Notes * IndexDecolonial Studies, Postcolonial HorizonsNovember 2013 US162 ppHardback $115.00 9780745331324Paperback $35.00 9780745331317Published by Pluto PressRace, Memory and the Apartheid ArchiveTowards a Transformative Psychosocial PraxisEdited by Garth Stevens, University of Witwatersrand,South Africa, Norman Duncan, University ofWitwatersrand, South Africa, Derek Hook, Birkbeck,University of LondonRace, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towardsa Transformative Psychosocial Praxis draws on apsychosocial approach that is uniquely suited to thesocio-historical and psychical analysis of racism.The book relies mainly on the memories, stories andnarratives of ordinary people living in apartheid SouthAfrica.Contents: Foreword * Introduction * 1. The ApartheidArchive Project, the Psychosocial and Political Praxis * SectionIntroduction: Theorising the Archive * 2. Memory, Narrative andVoice as Liberatory Praxis in the Apartheid Archive * 3. Working with the Apartheid Archive *4. Transitioning Racialised Spaces * Section Introduction: Whiteness, Blackness & the DiasporicOther * 5. Unsettling Whiteness * 6. Archiving White Lives, Historicising Whiteness * 7. Engagingwith the Apartheid Archive Project * 8. On Animal Mediators and Psychoanalytic Reading Practice* Section Introduction: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Archive * 9. Intersections of ‘Race’,Sex and Gender in Narratives on Apartheid * 10. Desire, Fear and Entitlement * 11. GenderedSubjectivities and Relational References in Black Women’s Narratives of Apartheid Racism *Section Introduction: Method in the Archive * 12. On Genealogical Approaches to Working withthe Apartheid Archive * 13. How do we ‘Treat’ Apartheid History? * 14. Self-Consciousness andImpression Management in the Authoring of Apartheid Related Narratives * 15. Decolonisation,Critical Methodologies and Why Stories Matter * 16. From the White Interior to an ExteriorBlacknessStudies in the PsychosocialSeptember 2013 UKSeptember 2013 US392 pp 9 b/w illustrationsHardback £65.00 / $100.00 / CN$115.00 9781137263896Canadian Rightsebooks availableIrish Catholic IdentitiesOliver Rafferty, University of London, UKThe twenty-two chapters of this work trace theelements which have shaped how the Catholic Irishidentified themselves, and explore the political, religious,and cultural dimensions of the complex picture which isIrish Catholic identity.Contents: Introduction * PART I: THE CELTS, CATHOLICISMAND THE MIDDLE AGES * 1. Gaelic and Catholic in the EarlyMiddle Ages; Bernhard Maier * 2. Catholic Ireland, ‘the island ofsaints and scholars’: Myth or Reality?; Donnchahd Ó Corráin *3. Late Medieval Cultural Catholicism; Salvador Ryan * PART II:EARLY MODERN STRUGGLES * 4. Irish Political Catholicism from1530s to 1660; David Finnegan * 5. The ‘absenting of the bishopof Armagh’: Eucharistic Controversy and the English Origins ofIrish Catholic Identity; James Murray * 6. Henry Fitzsimon, the Irish Jesuits and Catholic identityin the Early Modern Period; Brian Jackson * 7. Gaelic Catholicism and the Plantation of Ulster;Raymond Gillespie * PART III: IDENTITY FORMATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURIES * and more...October 2013 US384 pp 1 mapHardback $100.00 9780719084959Published by Manchester University Press20