Editorial to Racism and Sociology

Against this backdrop, the following papers discuss particular aspects of the relations between racism and sociology. In the introductory section Wulf D. Hund (Universität Hamburg) analyses the connections of classist and racist considerations in the course of the development of sociological thought until the establishment of academic sociology and Alana Lentin (University of Western Sydney) investigates the elision, neglect or denial of race in the work of scholars of >migration, ethnicity and minoritiesevidence-basedintegrationinterculturality< in light of the European silence about race