Race In North America

Origin And Evolution Of A Worldview

Audrey Smedley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

1993
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-0622-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Tracing the idea of race through three centuries of North American history, the author shows race to be a cultural construct - a folk worldview fabricated within English culture. The book offers a detailed insight into European and particularly English 18th- and 19th-century intellectual and popular beliefs about "race".

Autor

Audrey Smedley is professor emerita of anthropology and African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Inhalt

The Etymology of the Term "Race"; Antecedents of the Racial Worldview; Growth of the English Ideology; The Arrival of Africans and their Decline into Slavery; Comparing Slave Systems-, The Rise of Science: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Classifications of Human Diversity; Late Eighteenth-Century Thought and Crystallization of the Ideology of Race; Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview; A Different Order of Being: Nineteenth-Century Science and the Ideology of Race; Science and the Interchange of Race Ideology Between Europe and America; Dismantling the Cultural Construction of Race: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Science; New Perspectives on Human Variation and Some Tentative Conclusions.

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8133-0622-1 / 0813306221
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-0622-3 / 9780813306223
• Zustand: Neuware