Racism in Metropolitan Areas

Introduction: Racism in Metropolitan Areas
Rik Pinxten and Ellen Preckler

PART I: DISEMPOWERING THROUGH RACISM

Chapter 1. How a Dream was Shattered
Patrick Janssens

Chapter 2. Explaining Increased Racial Conflict in Post-industrial Societies: the Creation of Systemic ‘Competitive’ Youth Unemployment
Troy Duster

Chapter 3. Racial Conflicts in British Cities
Eric Seward

Chapter 4. Limits of Tolerance and Limited Tolerance: How Tolerant are the Danes?
Peter Hervik

Chapter 5. The Politics of ‘Caste is Race’: the Impact of Urbanisation
Dipankar Gupta

Chapter 6. Playing the Media: the Durban Case
Guy Poppe

Chapter 7. The Relevance of the Language of Race in South Asian Conflicts
Sumit Sarkar

Chapter 8. The Fremmede and the Dalit are Silent: Danish and Indian Cultural Worlds
Donald Robotham

Chapter 9. Approaching Racism: Attitudes, Actions and Social Structure
Robert A. Rubinstein

PART II: EMPOWERING TO COMBAT RACISM

Chapter 10. The Paradox of Secondary Ethnicity
Emanuel Marx

Chapter 11. Is Harmony Possible in a Multiracial Society? The Case of Singapore
Mary Judd

Chapter 12. Racism and Intercultural Issues in Urban Europe
Jagdish S. Gundara

Chapter 13. Antiracist Empowerment through Culture and Legislation
Johan Leman

Chapter 14. Racism in Large Cities: the Means to Empower/Disempower Groups and Communities
Glyn Ford

Chapter 15. Riding the Tiger: the Difficult Relationship between NGOs and the Media
Marc Peirs

Chapter 16. Urban Crowds Manipulated: Assessing the Austrian Case as an Example in Wider European Tendencies
Andre Gingrich

Chapter 17. Some Reflections on Culture and Violence
Erwin Jans

Chapter 18. Naturalising Difference and Models of Coexistence: Concluding Comments
Laura Nader

Notes on Contributors
Index