One of the inspirations that propelled the development of this Special Issue on race and racism in criminology was the vitality of recent race scholarship.1 This is reflected in a flurry of books and articles in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies and Identities that urgently address the ‘return’ of racism, race and nationalism to a political and cultural landscape that appeared to have wished them away to a post-racial, post-nationalist Neverland. The election of a paradigmatically white President in the USA and the UK referendum on membership of the European Union, and its aftermath, represent political conjunctures in which racism and nationalism have been undeniably dynamic. The work of any and all criminologists in those countries will be shaped by these events but without attending to this vibrant critical literature on race criminologists will be ill-equipped to account for their dynamics in their teaching, research, analysis and theorization. The two books reviewed here are chosen for the way they interrogate or open up a recurring problematic in British criminology, namely its deference to US perspectives and narratives on race and racism, and a corresponding lack of attention to the particularities of racism and nationalism in the British Isles (see Phillips et al., this issue). Susan Neiman’s book was a revelation. I grew up in England during the 1960s and 1970s when the triumph over German Nazism in the Second World War was a staple feature of children’s comics and other reading. I can just remember England’s victory in the 1966 football world cup final over West Germany and how it was adopted as symbolizing a post-war ascendancy that was otherwise rather absent. Wishfully more than actually, it signified Britons’ wider destiny to be the best in the world at everything, and the ghost self-image of their fading empire. Beating Germany in two World Wars and the world cup was all the proof anyone could want. Neiman’s book told me how little I had really learned since then about Germany’s efforts to address its past and the profound implications of defeat, division and unification on what it meant to be German. Two 930028 TCR0010.1177/1362480620930028Theoretical CriminologyReview essay book-review2020

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