Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: I The Concept of the Stereotype -- Stereotyping as Gain and Loss -- The Classical View of Stereotyping -- Stereotyping and Modernity -- 2 The Dilemma of Stereotyping -- Pathologising Prejudice -- Naturalising Stereotyping -- Shortcomings in Stereotyping Research -- Stereotyping as Social Exorcism -- 3 The Concept of the Other -- Denying History -- Constructing the Primitive -- One and the Other -- Stereotypes and the Other -- 4 The Politics of Belonging -- Symbolic Boundaries -- National Belonging -- National Identity -- Building the Nation -- Antiquity and Invention -- 5 The Politics of Not Belonging -- Methuselah vs Marconi -- Pride of Race -- Populist Racism -- Cartographies of Unbelonging -- 6 The Politics of Postcolonial Critique -- East by Not East -- Postcolonial Studies -- Decolonising the Historical Imagination -- Abjection and Cultural Analysis -- 7 The Sociology of Censure -- Infraction and the Drive to Order -- Folk Devils -- Flaws in the Moral Panic Model -- Normality and Stereotypical Censure -- 8 The Sociology of the Stranger -- The Stranger and Modernity -- From Simmel to Bauman -- Bringing it all Back Home -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.