[Review of] E. Ellis Cashmore. ed. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. 2nd ed.

A recurrent theme in the sociological study of racial and ethnic relations is the discipline\u27s inability to provide a clear and focused research agenda. Scholars in the field are troubled by their inability to agree as to the nature and scope of the discipline, and hence, the lack of an all-encompassing definition for the study of racial and ethnic relations. For example, a continual semantic debate exists over the appropriate usage and application of such concepts as race versus racial in sociological discourse. The Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations has been developed with this concern in mind