Race : are we so different? /

Fully updated edition of this popular companion to AAA's RACE exhibition. Now with an international focus to encourage use as a stand-alone textbook for undergraduate and graduate students for courses on race. Explores the contemporary experience of race and racism, and the often-invisible ways...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Goodman, Alan H. (Author), Moses, Yolanda T. (Author), Jones, Joseph L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2020]
Edition:Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing race, human variation, and racism
  • Histories of race, difference, and racism. Introducing race ; Creating race ; Human mismeasure ; Inventing whiteness ; Separate and unequal
  • Why human variation is not racial. Introduction : Race [does not equal] human biological variation ; Skin deep? ; Sickle cell disease: not for blacks only ; The apportionment of variation, or why we are all Africans under the skin ; The evolution of variation
  • Living with race and racism. Introduction ; The census and making race "official" ; Race and education ; Linking race and wealth: an American dilemma ; Race and health inequalities ; Conclusion.