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Race in North America : Origin and Evolution of a Worldview.
A sweeping work examining the evolution of "race" in the past three centuries as a cultural invention rationalizing inequality among the peoples of North America.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the Fourth Edition; Introduction; 1 Some Theoretical Considerations; 2 The Etymology of the Term Race in the English Language; 3 Antecedents of the Racial Worldview; 4 The Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America; 5 The Arrival of Africans and Descent into Slavery; 6 Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude; 7 Eighteenth-Century Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race; 8 Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview; 9 The Rise of Science and Scientific Racism.
- 10 Growth of the Racial Worldview in Nineteenth-Century America11 Science and the Expansion of Race Ideology Beyond the United States; 12 Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology; 13 Changing Perspectives on Human Variation in Science; 14 Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race: Transformations of an Ideology; 15 The Health and Other Consequences of the Racial Worldview; References; Index.