Race in North America : origin and evolution of a worldview / Audrey Smedley and Brian Smedley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smedley, Audrey.

Contributor:

Smedley, Brian D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Racism--History.

Racism.

Racism--North America--History.

Black race.

Slavery--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2011.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Introduction

1 Some Theoretical Considerations

2 The Etymology of the Term Race in the English Language

3 Antecedents of the Racial Worldview

4 The Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America

5 The Arrival of Africans and Descent into Slavery

6 Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude

7 Eighteenth-Century Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race

8 Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview

9 The Rise of Science and Scientific Racism

10 Growth of the Racial Worldview in Nineteenth-Century America

11 Science and the Expansion of Race Ideology Beyond the United States

12 Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology

13 Changing Perspectives on Human Variation in Science

14 Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race: Transformations of an Ideology

15 The Health and Other Consequences of the Racial Worldview

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-97441-8

0-429-96333-5

0-429-49478-5

1-283-13790-9

9786613137906

0-8133-4555-3

9780429494789

OCLC:

743691759