What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity

• Autore principale: Banton, Michael (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Berghahn Books 2015
• Soggetti: Social & political philosophy; Anthropology; race theory; racism; ethnic studies; race and politics; race in America; political philosophy; Sociology; United States
• Accesso online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Riassunto

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.

ISBN

9781785336584

Accesso

Open Access