Introduction: Paradoxes of progress / Sean P. Hier and Daniel Lett -- Critical race theory: toward a post-essentialist form of social critique / Rita Dhamoon -- Let's not all go "post-al": towars a geneaology of essentialism / Alicja Muszynski -- The way forward: reforming the language of race and ethnicity / Michael Banton -- The politics of provenance: genetics, culture, and identity / Rober Carter -- Approaching intersection: individual lives, multiple inequalities / Lori Wilkinson -- On the merits of Orientalism: a heretical essay on the sociology of knowledge / Peyman Vahabzadeh -- Modernity, citizenship, and racialization: Jim Crowism and lynching campaigns in the post-emancipation southern United States / Meir Amor -- The Sydney Cronulla Beach riots: the contexts and contradictions / Jock Collins and Carol Reid -- Political apologies and racial reconciliation / Graham Dodds -- Recasting racial justice: beyond the economy/culture divide / Adam Molnar -- Racism, justice, and social cohesion in Canada / Charles Ungerleider -- Competing anti-racisms and the interpretation of racism in the post-multicultural era / Alana Lentin -- Towards a grassroots multiculturalism? A genealogical analysis of solidarity practices in Canadian activism today / Mohamed Abdou, Richard J.F. Day, and Sean Haberle -- The post-fascist condition: the politics of anti-racism and neo-fascism / William Little.