1a Intro: Racism and Xenophobia
Readings: Clair and Denis (2015) and Hervik (2015). Skim reading: Bonilla-Silva (2015), and ESS ’14 questionnaire.
In this first session, we will discuss the concepts of racism and xenophobia and what kind of research of these phenomena we can conduct based on the European Social Survey 2014. The image below shows an instance of potential racial profiling, a very contentious topic in the US and Europe these days.
References
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2015. “More Than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(1):73–87. doi: 10.1177/2332649214557042.
Clair, Matthew, and Jeffrey S. Denis. 2015. “Racism, Sociology Of.” Pp. 857–63 in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier.
Hervik, Peter. 2015. “Xenophobia and Nativism.” Pp. 796–801 in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), edited by J. D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier.