Race in North America : Origin and Evolution of a Worldview.

Race in North America : Origin and Evolution of a Worldview.

A sweeping work examining the evolution of "race" in the past three centuries as a cultural invention rationalizing inequality among the peoples of North America.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smedley, Audrey
Other Authors: Smedley, Brian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Westview Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Race.
Racism > History.
Racism > North America > History.
Black race.
Slavery > History.
race (group of people)
Black (general, race and ethnicity)
Black race
Race
Racism
Slavery
North America
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition; Introduction; 1 Some Theoretical Considerations; 2 The Etymology of the Term Race in the English Language; 3 Antecedents of the Racial Worldview; 4 The Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America; 5 The Arrival of Africans and Descent into Slavery; 6 Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude; 7 Eighteenth-Century Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race; 8 Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview; 9 The Rise of Science and Scientific Racism.
  • 10 Growth of the Racial Worldview in Nineteenth-Century America11 Science and the Expansion of Race Ideology Beyond the United States; 12 Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology; 13 Changing Perspectives on Human Variation in Science; 14 Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race: Transformations of an Ideology; 15 The Health and Other Consequences of the Racial Worldview; References; Index.

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