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Perspectives on race today Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists and illustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We So Different? is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea of race, demonstrating how current scientific understanding is often inconsistent with popular no...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodman, Alan H.
Other Authors: Moses, Yolanda T., Jones, Joseph L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : [Arlington, VA] : Wiley-Blackwell ; American Anthropological Association, 2012.
Subjects:
Race > Social aspects > United States.
Race > Social aspects.
Racism > United States.
Racism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Regarding race
  • Part 1: Histories of race, difference, and racism
  • Introducing race
  • Creating race
  • Human mismeasure
  • Inventing whiteness
  • Separate and unequal
  • Part 2: 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
  • Part 3: Living with race and racism
  • Introduction: living with race and racism
  • Race and the census
  • Race and education
  • Linking race and wealth: an American dilemma
  • Race and health disparities.