Dr Ben Pitcher is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Westminster. He is author of The Politics of Multiculturalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), a key text in the contemporary sociology of race and racism. Ben has published extensively on the subjects of race and racism, and is currently working on a new book, Consuming Race (Routledge, 2014) which demonstrates the centrality of race to contemporary culture, exploring the racial meanings of a diverse range of cultural practices, objects and sites not ordinarily understood in racial terms.