Race studies spread across disciplines, displacing class-centered analysis and its sociological monopoly.

Evidence

One of the most notable features of recent developments in the field of racial and ethnic studies has been the search for an adequate theoretical analysis of what we mean by notions such as race, racism, and ethnicity. In a growing number of advanced industrial societies, questions about race and ethnicity have moved to the center of scholarly debate, to a considerable degree displacing preoccupation with class and other forms of social inequality. This is evident in the massive increase in scholarly texts regarding race and ethnicity, and the growing number of specialized journals in a variety of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities focusing on theoretical and empirical research on race. This is in marked contrast to the earlier study of race and ethnic relations as largely a sociological or anthropological concern. The crumbling of these disciplinary boundaries in research around race has meant that it is no longer possible or desirable to approach the study of race and/or ethnicity from a single disciplinary perspective. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 96

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 96