What we now know about race and ethnicity / Michael Banton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banton, Michael, 1926-2018, author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Ethnicity.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish "race" as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.

Contents:

What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity; Contents; Preface; Introduction. The Paradox; Chapter 1. The Scientific Sources of the Paradox; Chapter 2. The Political Sources of the Paradox; Chapter 3. International Pragmatism; Chapter 4. Sociological Knowledge; Chapter 5. Conceptions of Racism; Chapter 6. Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity; Chapter 7. Collective Action; Conclusion. The Paradox Resolved; Select Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed July 16, 2020).

ISBN:

9781785336584

1785336584

9781782386131

1782386130

OCLC:

935495033

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access