Race in North America : origin and evolution of a worldview /

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This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Smedley, Audrey (Autor), Smedley, Brian D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2011]
Edición:Fourth edition
Temas:
Race.
Racism > North America > History.
Racism > History.
Black race.
Slavery > History.
Racisme > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Racisme > Histoire.
Race noire.
race (group of people)
Black (general, race and ethnicity)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Black race
Race
Racism
Slavery
North America
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Some theoretical considerations
  • The etymology of the term "race" in the English language
  • Antecedents of the racial worldview
  • The growth of the English ideology about human differences in America
  • The arrival of Africans and descent into slavery
  • Comparing slave systems : the significance of "racial" servitude
  • Eighteenth-century thought and the crystallization of the ideology of race
  • Antislavery and the entrenchment of a racial worldview
  • The rise of science and scientific racism
  • Growth of the racial worldview in nineteenth-century America
  • Science and the expansion of race ideology beyond the United States
  • Twentieth-century developments in race ideology
  • Changing perspectives on human variation in science
  • Dismantling the folk idea of race : transformations of an ideology
  • The health and other consequences of the racial worldview

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