Race in North America : origin and evolution of a worldview /
"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...
| Основен автор: | Smedley, Audrey. |
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| Други автори: | Smedley, Brian D. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boulder, CO :
Westview Press,
2011.
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| Издание: | 4th ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=421158 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Race in North America. |
Съдържание:
- 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.