Bringing together a range of scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies offers an overview of contemporary debates as well as an exploration of new directions in the dynamic field of race and ethnicity.

David Theo Goldberg is Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. He has published numerous books on racial studies. He is author of The Racial State (2002) and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993), and co-editor, with Philomena Essed, of Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (2002). He is the founding co-editor of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture.

John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at City University, London. He has written widely on issues about race and ethnicity. His recent works include Ethnic and Racial Studies Today (1999) and Racism (1999), both co-edited with Martin Blumer, and Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (2000), co-edited with Les Back. He is associate editor of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.