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What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity
Michael Banton
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Description for What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity
Paperback. Developing an international approach, this book reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in the social sciences. It identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race that took hold in the USA after the Civil War. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782387176
SKU
V9781782387176
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About Michael Banton
Michael Banton taught social anthroplogy in the University of Edinburgh 1954-65; political science in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962-63; and sociology in the University of Bristol 1965-92. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1987-89, and from 1986 to 2001 a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Chairman, ... Read more
Reviews for What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity
Banton's s book is very thought-provoking: it made me think harder about the theoretical aspects of race and ethnicity than most books I have read recently on the topic. His willingness to challenge taken-for-granted theoretical stances is very bracing. There is also a lot of interesting information in this concise book, including material on the history of race and ethnicity ... Read more