Comparative perspectives on racism / edited by Jessika ter Wal and Maykel Verkuyten.

"This book is the result of the third international conference, "New directions in comparative research on racism and xenophobia, of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations ... held in Utrecht in April 1998"--P. xiv.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : racism in a comparative perspective / Maykel Verkuyten & Jessika ter Wal -- Making racial culture : children and the mental life of a social concept / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Racism in nationalised states : a framework for comparative research / Andreas Wimmer -- Conceptualising racism and Islamophobia / Malcolm D. Brown -- Ideologies, racism, discourse : debates on immigration and ethnic issues / Teun A. van Dijk -- Giving foreigners the vote : ethnocentrism in Dutch and Belgian political debates / Dirk Jacobs -- Political claims-making against racism and discrimination in Britain and Germany / Rund Koopmans & Paul Statham -- Group goal attributions and stereotypes in five former Soviet states / Louk Hagendoorn & Hub Linssen -- Changes in national and ethnic stereotypes in Central and Eastern Europe / Edwin Poppe -- Jewish identity, discrimination, and anti-semitism in three countries / Monica Savulescu-Voudouris & Camil Fuchs -- A typology of racist violence : implications for comparative research and intervention / Claudio Bolzman, Anne-Catherine Salberg Mendoza, Monique Eckmann & Karl Grünberg -- Monitoring ethnic relations in Western and Eastern Europe / Cristiano Codagnone.