An important collection of ideas which should be read by anyone at all concerned about the pervasiveness of racist ideologies in today's societies. Preface, Universal Racism, I There a ''Neo-Racism''?, The Ideological Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism Versus Racism and Sexism, Racism and Nationalism, The Historical Nation, The Construction of Peoplehood: Racism and Nationalism and Ethnicity, The Nation Form: History and Ideology, Household Structures and Labor-Force Formation, Classes: Polarization and Overdetermination, Class Conflict in the Capitalist World-Economy, Marx and History: Fruitful and Unfruitful Emphases, The Bourgeois(ie) as Concept and Reality, From Class Struggle to Classless Struggle?, Displacements of Social Conflict, Social Conflict in Post-Independence Black Africa: The Concepts of Race and Status-Group Reconsidered, Class Racism, Racism and Crisis, Postscript.