Part 1 Conceptual matters: Conceptualizing "race", ethniticity and nation: towards a comparative perspective, Peter Ratcliffe University of Warwick; State, nation and ethnicity: the processual linkages, T.K. Oommen Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Part 2 The salient of "race": The dilemma persists: "race", class and inequality in American life, Walter R. Allen University of Sydney; South Africa: from "race" to non-racialism, Rupert Taylor University of the Witwatersrand; "Race" in Britain: theory, methods and substance, Peter Ratcliffe University of Warwick. Part 3 Ethnicity, nation and ethno-nationalism: Linkages between methodology, research and theory in "race" and ethnic studies: the case of Sri Lanka, Radhika Coomaraswamy International Centre for ethnic studies, Sri Lanka; Ethno-nationalism in India: political, historical and sociological discourse, Ashok Kaul Banares Hindu University, Banares; The dialectics of theory and research on "race" and ethnicity in Nigeria, L. Adele Jinadu University of Lagos; Community and ethnicity in Israel: interrelationships of theory and practice, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman University of Haifa; Nation, "race" and ethnicity in Poland, Antonina Kloskowska University of Warsaw; Between west and east: Tartars in the former USSR, Vasil Ziatdinov Institute of Culture, Moscow; Sviatoslav Grigories University of Altai, Russia.