Dr Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and former Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh.

He is Co-Investigator of The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (UKRI, 2021-2023) and Principal Investigator of the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe¿s Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020).

He was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh's (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group and the British Council¿s Outreach Program, and formerly elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), and elected Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).

He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation.

He is Series Editor of New Approaches to Sociology (SAGE); co-Editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; co-Editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press) and co-Editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS).

Introduction
Why a New Book on Race and Ethnicity?
Carving Nature at its Joints
Identity and Dispersion
Reflexivity
How to Use This Book
ANTISEMITISM
The Object-Subject Distinction
From Bigitory to Racism
Hierarchies and the New Antisemitism
BLACKNESS
An Etymology of Blackness
Blackness and Double Consciousness
Blackness as a Political Identity
The Black Atlantic
CITIZENSHIP
The Challenge Of Citizenship
What the Greeks and Romans Did For Us
Marshall and Beyond: Equality and Culture
National and Post-National Citzenship
Citizenship and New Social Movements
DIASPORA
Co-Ordinates of Diaspora
Diaspora and Groups
Diasporic Space
EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES
Foot Races And Starting Lines
Groups and Experiences
Recognition or Redistribution
ETHNICITY
Subjectivities and Primoridalisms
Ethnic Boundaries And Ethnic Assertiveness
New and Old Ethnicities
Boundaries and Drawbacks
EURO-ISLAM
Euro-Islam as Multidirectional Process
Euro-Islam as Muslim Adaptation
Re-Locating the Muslim Subject
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Ethnicity and Health
Disease and Categories
Ethnic Variations
HYBRIDITY
Hybridity as Translation
Hybritity as Identity
INTEGRATION
Two Uses
Diversity and Integration
Integration as a Vortex Issue
INTERCULTURALISM
Communication Beyond Co-Existence?
Free From Cultural Groups
A Stronger Sense of the Whole
Illiberalism And Culture
INTERSECTIONALITY
Structural Or Political Intersectionality?
Intra-Categorical, Anti-Categorical, and Inter-Categorical
Unitary, Multiple and Intersectional
ISLAMOPHOBIA
Challenges and Responses
Intersectional Islamophobia: Gender & Civilisation
MIGRATION
Recent Trends in Migration
Three Ages of Mass Migration
Theorising Migration
MIXEDNESS
Mixedness as Population Change
Mixedness as Racial Formation
MULTICULTURALISM
A Philiosphical Rationale
Political Provenance(s)
Intellectual Calibrations
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns
The Backlash and Beyond
NATIONALISM
Nationalism and the State
What is a Nation?
Imagined Communities
Ethnies And Pre-Modernity
The Bad and the Banal
ORIENTALISM
Muslim Society
A Style of Thought
Neo-Orientalism?
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
The Function Of Political Rights
Political Participation as the Franchise
Securing Representation
POST-COLONIALISM
Post or Present?
Politics, Culture or Both?
Addressing or Ignoring the Post-Colonial?
RACE
History and Categorisation
A Biological Category
Post-Race or the Paradox of Race?
RACE RELATIONS
Origins
British Race Relations
Six Orders of Race Relations
Status and Party
RACIALISATION
Intellectual Provenances
Historical Racialisation
Contemporary Racialisation
Positive Racialisaiton and Model Minorities
Institutional Racism
RECOGNITION
The Range of Recognition
Phenomenology and Ethics
Critical Theory and Race
Multicultural Turns
Democratic Participation
The Emergence of Misrecognition
SECULARISM
Contemporary Meanings
Secularism and State
Securalism And Autonomy
Secularism and Citizenship
Postsecularism
SUPER-DIVERSITY
A Concept For Our Time
What is New that is 'Super'?
TRANSNATIONALISM
Social Morphology and Consciousness
Cultural Reproduction and Capital
Political Engagement and Space
WHITENESS
White or Western?
Racial Supremacy and Privilege
Class and Negotiating Identity
Secularisation
The Conditions of Transnationalism