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There are two reasons why this book should be on anyone's reading list. One is that she fulfils this ambition remarkably well, in a step-by-step argument that synthesizes the best of current scholarship on equality in Europe. The other is that she uses (or maybe even: resuscitates) the much-abused concept of intersectionality to re-position racism and racial equality at the heart of equality politics. To start with the latter, she very carefully and precisely unpacks the claims of European polities that a post-racial society has been achieved as false and untrue. She then proceeds to situate this dangerous and unproductive claim in the historical and political context of Europe. If the book would have done just this, there would already been much reason for praise, also given its clarity of writing and argumentation. But she does not stop there. Because, after all, are there not also claims for a post-feminist and post-homophobic …