Audrey Smedley, Brian D. Smedley

Race in North America

Origin and Evolution of a Worldview

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780813345543
• ISBN-10: 0813345545
• Artikelnr.: 33142951

Autorenporträt

Audrey Smedley

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION Introduction 1. Some Theoretical
Considerations Race as a Modern Idea Ideas, Ideologies, and Worldviews The
Social Reality of Race in America On the Relationship Between Biology and
Race The Primordialists' Argument Race as a Worldview: A Theoretical
Perspective Race and Ethnicity: Biology and Culture Notes 2. The Etymology
of the Term Race in the English Language Notes 3. Antecedents of the Racial
Worldview The Age of European Exploration The Rise of Capitalism and the
Transformation of English Society Social Organization and Values of Early
Capitalism English Ethnocentrism and the Idea of the Savage English
Nationalism and Social Values in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Hereditary Social Identity: The Lesson of Catholic Spain Notes 4. The
Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America Earliest
Contacts The Ensuing Conflicts The Backing of God and Other Justifications
for Conquest The New Savages Notes 5. The Arrival of Africans and Descent
into Slavery The First Africans The Descent into Permanent Slavery Was
There Race Before Slavery? Why the Preference for Africans? The Problem of
Labor A Focus on Physical Differences and the Invention of Social Meanings
Notes 6. Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude
The Background Literature and the Issues of Slavery The Nature of Slavery A
Brief History of Old World Slavery Colonial Slavery Under the Spanish and
Portuguese Uniqueness of the English Experience of Slavery The Significance
of Slavery in the Creation of Race Ideology Notes 7. Eighteenth-Century
Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race Social Values of
the American Colonists Nature's Hierarchy Dominant Themes in North American
Racial Beliefs Anglo-Saxonism: The Making of a Biological Myth Thomas
Jefferson and the American Dilemma Notes 8. Antislavery and the
Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview A Brief History of Antislavery Thought
The Proslavery Response The Sociocultural Realities of Race and Slavery The
Priority of Race over Class Notes 9. The Rise of Science and Scientific
Racism Early Classifications of Humankind The Impact of Eighteenth-Century
Classifications Notes 10. Growth of the Racial Worldview in
Nineteenth-Century America Polygeny vs. Monogeny: The Debate over Race and
Species The Unnatural Mixture Scientific Race Ideology in the Judicial
System White Supremacy Immigrants and the Extension of the Race Hierarchy
Notes 11. Science and the Expansion of Race Ideology Beyond the United
States The Continuing Power of Polygenist Thinking European Contributions
to the Ideology of Race Herbert Spencer and the Rise of Social Darwinism
The Measurement of Human Differences: Anthropometry Typological Models of
Races The Measurement of Human Differences: Psychometrics Extension of Race
Ideology Overseas Notes 12. Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology
Social Realities of the Racial Worldview Psychometrics: The Measuring of
Human Worth by IQ The Eugenics Movement The Racial World of the Nazis The
Continuing Influence of Racial Ideology in Science Notes 13. Changing
Perspectives on Human Variation in Science The Decline of the Idea of Race
as Biology in Science Physical Anthropology and Attempts to Transform the
Meaning of Race Population Genetics Is There a Genetic Basis for Race? The
Ecological Perspective: Human Variations as Products of Adaptation The
Genetic Conception of Human Variation Monogeny Reconsidered: The Nonproblem
of Race Mixture Notes 14. Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race:
Transformations of an Ideology The Meaning and Legacy of Race as Identity
The Quest for a Mixed-Race Census Category Barack Obama and the Meaning of
Race The Future of the Racial Worldview The Persistence of Racial Thinking
Notes 15. The Health and Other Consequences of the Racial Worldview The
Extent of Racial Health Disparities in the United States The Causes of
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in the United States Conclusion Notes
REFERENCES INDEX