Based on Stuart Hall's understanding that "Race is one of those major concepts that helps organize the great classificatory system of difference that operates in human societies", this handbook contributes to the study of Race through a spatial lens. Whether articulated as a caste, ethnicity, racialized ethnic group, ethicized racial group, national origin, citizenship, or class, Race is a complex and integrated system of division in a society. In addition to the social, historical, and cultural foundations, there is a need to examine the geographical basis in order to find any definition and understanding of Race.

The De Gruyter Handbook of the Geographies of Race is a visionary reference work which features contributions from a broad range of disciplines to present a global, state-of-the-art, and holistic exploration of the ways in which the geographies of Race can be studied. It critically engages with pressing questions of Race and racism, drawing from, and contributing to, an intellectual history rooted in anti-colonial and liberatory struggles. This pioneering volume will benefit academics and students of Geography, Sociology, Political Science and related disciplines.

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Rasul A. Mowatt is the Department Head of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management in the College of Natural Resources and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Formally served as a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Science at Indiana University. Rasul is a researcher whose primary areas of focus are: Geographies of Race, Geographies of Violence, Animation of Public Space, and Critical Leisure Studies. His most relevant and related book to this project is The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence: The City and State Between Us (2021).

Ishan Ashutosh is Associate Professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington and an affiliated faculty member in Dhar India Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society. His work in critical human geography brings together migration and diaspora studies, urban geography, and the comparative politics of race and ethnicity. Focusing on the multiple and contested production of South Asia, his research explores questions of mobility, representation, and postcolonial knowledge. His work has appeared in journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers , Progress in Human Geography , Citizenship Studies , Diaspora , Geopolitics , Journal of Historical Geography , Geographical Review , and South Asian Diaspora .

Patricia Basile is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington. As a critical urban geographer, architect, and urbanist, her research focuses on uneven racialized geographies of housing and urbanization. Through participatory action research and ethnographic frameworks, her scholarship explores the roles and processes of capital, property, law in the production and reproduction of housing precarity and the grassroots struggles for housing justice in the Americas. Her work has been grounded in intentional collaborations with communities and public scholarship to addresses urban and housing challenges affecting low-income and racialized communities and has been featured in the Journal of Urban and Regional Research , Habitat International , Urban Studies , Annals of the American Association of Geographers , among others.