What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity

• मुख्य लेखक: Banton, Michael (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Berghahn Books 2015
• विषय: Social & political philosophy; Anthropology; race theory; racism; ethnic studies; race and politics; race in America; political philosophy; Sociology; United States
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

सारांश

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 make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.

आईएसबीएन

9781785336584

अभिगमन

Open Access