Introduction

Abstract

<p>Race, gender, and class have also been deliberated upon systematically for many decades in philosophy of education and in the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book gives a global picture about how race has been and is conceived in educational and other social theory, thus tracing a path in scholarship on race and racism in connection to other important global phenomena, such as ethnicity, colonialism, and nationalism. At the heart of contemporary conundrums around race and racism is how race is ideological and constructed, while also being significant to people’s lived, empirical experiences. In the early twenty-first century, there have been two intersecting trends in western scholarship and popular thinking about race.</p>