Rural Racism (Hardcover)

Rural issues are currently attracting unprecedented levels of interest, with the debates surrounding the future of traditional rural customs and practice becoming a significant political concern. However, the problem of racism in rural areas has been largely overlooked by academics, practitioners and researchers who have sought almost exclusively to develop an understanding of racism in urban contexts. This edited book aims to address this oversight by examining notions of ethnic identity, otherness and racist victimization that have tended to be marginalized from traditional rural discourse. The text is divided into three parts, the first of which places the terms rural and racism in context by analyzing appropriate theoretical explanations of rurality as well as some of the concepts that characterize the problem of racism in a rural setting. The book then considers the nature and process of victimization and the way in which communities are affected by racism in different rur