GLBL 415/515 Global Story of Race

Published in association with the International Studies Association (ISA), the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international studies and international relations. Also known as: ISA compendium or International studies online

Nearly 3,000 articles and important biographies contributed by thousands of scholars (including several Nobel prize winners) from around the world on a wide array of global topics. Includes many articles on issues of race.

Provides the historical background and etymology of a wide range of words related to these concepts, looking at discourses of race, ethnicity and culture from a broadly multicultural perspective.

This Handbook covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations.

"A comprehensive guide to the increasingly relevant, broad and ever changing terrain of studies surrounding race and ethnicity. Comprising a series of essays and a critical dictionary of key names and terms, written by respected scholars from a range of academic disciplines."

"...provides expert insight into the complex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of human relations worldwide in a time of rising populist nationalism, intensified racial and religious tensions, and mounting hostilities towards immigrants and minorities. ...offer(s) a diversity of interpretations, models and perspectives that address the challenges facing the study of race, ethnicity, and nationalism."