Race in North America : origin and evolution of a worldview / Audrey Smedley, Ph.D., Emerita, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fellow AAAS ; Brian Smedley, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smedley, Audrey., author.

Smedley, Brian D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Racism--North America--History.

Racism.

Racism--History.

Black race.

Slavery--History.

Slavery.

North America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2011]

Summary:

This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text 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 its implications for the meaning of race in America and the future of our racial ideology. Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

Some theoretical considerations

The etymology of the term "race" in the English language

Antecedents of the racial worldview

The growth of the English ideology about human differences in America

The arrival of Africans and descent into slavery

Comparing slave systems : the significance of "racial" servitude

Eighteenth-century thought and the crystallization of the ideology of race

Antislavery and the entrenchment of a racial worldview

The rise of science and scientific racism

Growth of the racial worldview in nineteenth-century America

Science and the expansion of race ideology beyond the United States

Twentieth-century developments in race ideology

Changing perspectives on human variation in science

Dismantling the folk idea of race : transformations of an ideology

The health and other consequences of the racial worldview

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed on April 11, 2023)

Other Format:

Print version: Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America.

ISBN:

9780813345550

0813345553

9780429494789

0429494785

9780429963339

0429963335

OCLC:

742516021

Publisher Number:

99993232787

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.