This book analyzes racism in Communist and post-Communist contexts, examining the 'Red' promise of an end to racism and the racial logics at work in the Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, Cuba and China, placing these in the context of global racialization.

Autorentext
IAN LAW Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds and founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, UK. His major books include Ethnicity and Education in England and Europe (with S. Swann), Racism and Ethnicity, Racism, Postcolonialism and Europe (edited with Huggan), Institutional Racism in Higher Education (edited with Turney and Phillips), Race in the News, Racism, Ethnicity and Social Policy, Local Government and Thatcherism (with Butcher, Leach and Mullard) and The Local Politics of Race (with Ben-Tovim, Gabriel, and Stredder).

Inhalt
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Racializing Russia Racial Proletarianization and After: Anti-Roma Racism in Central and Eastern Europe Cuba: The Raceless Nation Racial Sinicisation: Han Power and Racial and Ethnic Domination in China Red Racisms and After: The Promise, The Logics, The Prospects Bibliography Index