Race: Are We So Different?

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 notions of race. Taken from the popular national public education project and museum exhibition, it explores the contemporary experience of race and racism in the United States and the often-invisible ways race and racism have influenced laws, customs, and social institutions.Content:
Chapter 1 Regarding Race (pages 1–5):
Chapter 1 Histories of Race, Difference, and Racism (page 7):
Chapter 2 Introducing Race (pages 9–14):
Chapter 3 Creating Race (pages 15–25):
Chapter 4 Human Mismeasure (pages 26–43):
Chapter 5 Inventing Whiteness (pages 44–66):
Chapter 6 Separate and Unequal (pages 67–89):
Chapter 2 Why Human Variation Is Not Racial (page 91):
Chapter 7 Introduction (pages 93–100):
Chapter 8 Skin Deep? (pages 101–110):
Chapter 9 Sickle Cell Disease (pages 111–122):
Chapter 10 The Apportionment of Variation, or … (pages 123–132):
Chapter 11 The Evolution of Variation (pages 133–143):
Chapter 3 Living with Race and Racism (page 145):
Chapter 12 Introduction (pages 147–153):
Chapter 13 Race and the Census (pages 154–173):
Chapter 14 Race and Education (pages 174–194):
Chapter 15 Linking Race and Wealth (pages 195–213):
Chapter 16 Race and Health Disparities (pages 214–230):
Chapter 17 Conclusion (pages 231–245):