This book brings together internationally known scholars from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical traditions, all of whom have made significant contributions to the field of race and ethnic relations. Preface, Introduction: Controversies and Continuities in Race and Ethic Relations Theory, Intersecting Strands in the Theorization of Race and Ethnic Relations, Epistemological Assumptions in the Study of Racial Differentiation, The Role of Class Analysis in the Study of Race Relations - A Weberian Perspective, Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of ''Race'' and Class and the State: A Critical Analysis, Class Concepts and Class Struggle and Racism, A Political Analysis of Local Struggles for Racial Equality, Ethnicity and Third Word Development: Political and Academic Contexts, Social Anthropological Models of Inter-Ethnic Relations, Pluralism and Race and Ethnicity in Selected African Countries, Ethnicity and the Sociobiology Debate, Rational Choice Theory and the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations, The ''Chicago School'' of American Sociology and Symbolic Interactionism and Race Relations Theory, The Operationalization of Identity Theory in Racial and Ethnic Relations, Bibliography, Index.