title: Three current issues in ethnic and racial studies.
abstract: Prevailing orthodoxies in British studies of ethnic and racial relations have been challenged, most recently by perspectives developed within cultural studies. The issues that divide the contending parties have still to be clarified. Three of them appear to be: (i) problem definition; (ii) problem selection; and (iii) conceptual obsolescence.
authors.affiliation: Sociology, University of Bristol. michael@banton.demon.co.uk
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Banton
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003148:Communism; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D011822:Race Relations; D006113:United Kingdom