| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"In Race in North America, Audrey Smedley shows that "race" is a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Race, in its origin, was not a product of science but of a folk ideology reflecting a new form of social stratification and a rationalization for inequality among the peoples of North America. New coauthor Brian Smedley joins Audrey Smedley in updating this renowned and groundbreaking text. The fourth edition includes a compelling new chapter on the health impacts of the racial worldview, as well as a thoroughly rewritten chapter that explores the election of Barack Obama and the evolving role of race in American political history. This edition also incorporates recent findings on the human genome and the implications of genomics. Drawing on new understandings of DNA expression, the authors scrutinize the positions of contemporary race scientists who maintain that race is a valid biological concept"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Race.
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Racism -- History.
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Racism -- North America -- History.
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Black race.
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Slavery -- History.
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| Added Author |
Smedley, Brian D.
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| ISBN |
9780813345543 paperback |
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0813345545 paperback |
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