Studying the politics of race means engaging with everyday political debates

Evidence

This growth of interest is partly because political events in a variety of countries across Europe and other parts of the globe have emphasized the fact that the question of how to conceptualize the interplay between questions about race and politics is not purely an academic matter. It is also very much connected with wider political questions and cultures in any given historical conjuncture, and in a very real sense therefore the study of the politics of race involves an engagement with everyday political debates and dilemmas (Gilroy, 2000; Parekh, 2000). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2140

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the idea that scholarship on race is inseparable from lived political realities, connecting to Gilroy and Parekh’s arguments cited in the text.