Race in North America origin and evolution of a worldview

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smedley, Audrey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. Westview Press c2007, 2007
Edition:3rd ed
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Collection: Anthropology Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-371) and index
  • the significance of "racial" servitude
  • The rise of science : early attempts to classify human populations
  • 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 growth and expansion of race ideology
  • Twentieth-century developments in race ideology
  • Changing perspectives on human variation in science
  • Dismantling the folk idea of race : transformations of an ideology