Contents // List of Figures ix // Preface x // Acknowledgements xvii // 1 The Concept of the Stereotype 1 // Stereotyping as Gain and Loss 1 // The Classical View of Stereotyping 9 // Stereotyping and Modernity 16 // 2 The Dilemma of Stereotyping 22 // Pathologising Prejudice 22 // Naturalising Stereotyping 27 // Shortcomings in Stereotyping Research 30 // Stereotyping as Social Exorcism 38 // 3 The Concept of the Other 47 // Denying History 47 // Constructing the Primitive 51 // One and the Other 61 // Stereotypes and the Other 69 // 4 The Politics of Belonging 79 // Symbolic Boundaries 79 // National Belonging 85 // National Identity 88 // Building the Nation 98 // Antiquity and Invention 101 // 5 The Politics of Not Belonging 107 // Methuselah vs Marconi 107 // Pride of Race 115 // Populist Racism 126 // Cartographies of Unbelonging 136 // 6 The Politics of Postcolonial Critique 147 // East by Not East 147 // Postcolonial Studies 155 // Decolonising the Historical Imagination 160 // Abjection and Cultural Analysis 168 // 7 The Sociology of Censure 174 // Infraction and the Drive to Order 174 // Folk Devils 182 // Flaws in the Moral Panic Model 192 // Normality and Stereotypical Censure 197 // 8 The Sociology of the Stranger 203 // The Stranger and Modernity 203 // From Simmel to Bauman 212 // Bringing it all Back Home 217 // Bibliography 223 // Author Index 240 // Subject Index 243