This book analyses the nature of the contemporary racial state, exploring issues such as the nature of postraciality, racial neoliberalism, the state of multiculturalism and whiteness, alongside the functioning of state institutions and policy concerning the military, education, community surveillance, asylum and extradition.

Autorentext
Gargi Bhattacharya, Aston University, UK David Theo Goldberg, University of California, USA Shamim Miah, University of Huddersfield, UK Heidi Safia Mirza, University of London, UK Ala Sirriyeh, University of Bradford, UK Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Manchester, UK Vron Ware, Open University, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: The State of Race; Nisha Kapoor and Virinder S. Kalra 1. The Postracial Contemporary; David Theo Goldberg 2. Racial Neoliberal Britain?; Gargi Bhattacharyya 3. Remaking Whiteness in the 'Post-Racial' UK; James Rhodes 4. The Status of Multiculturalism and the Retreat from Difference; Sivamohan Valluvan 5. Muslim Women and Gender Stereotypes in 'New Times': From Multiculturalism to Islamophobia; Heidi Safia Mirza 6. Can you have Muslim soldiers? Diversity as a Martial Value; Vron Ware 7. 'Prevent'ing Education: Anti-Muslim Racism and the War on Terror in Schools; Shamim Miah 8. Resisting Technologies of Surveillance and Suspicion; Virinder S. Kalra and Tariq Mehmood 9. Extraordinary Extradition: Racial Injustice in Britain; Nisha Kapoor 10. Burying Asylum under the Foundations of Home; Ala Sirriyeh 11. Afterword: Racial Futures; Nisha Kapoor