Audrey Smedley, Brian D. Smedley

Race in North America (eBook, ePUB)

Origin and Evolution of a Worldview

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text includes a compelling new chapter on the health impacts of the racial worldview, as well as a thoroughly rewritten chapter that explores the election of Barack Obama and its implications for the meaning of race in America and the future of our racial ideology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429974410
• Artikelnr.: 56890777

Autorenporträt

Audrey Smedley

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION Introduction 1. Some Theoretical
Considerations Race as a Modern Idea Ideas, Ideologies, and Worldviews The
Social Reality of Race in America On the Relationship Between Biology and
Race The Primordialists' Argument Race as a Worldview: A Theoretical
Perspective Race and Ethnicity: Biology and Culture Notes 2. The Etymology
of the Term Race in the English Language Notes 3. Antecedents of the Racial
Worldview The Age of European Exploration The Rise of Capitalism and the
Transformation of English Society Social Organization and Values of Early
Capitalism English Ethnocentrism and the Idea of the Savage English
Nationalism and Social Values in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Hereditary Social Identity: The Lesson of Catholic Spain Notes 4. The
Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America Earliest
Contacts The Ensuing Conflicts The Backing of God and Other Justifications
for Conquest The New Savages Notes 5. The Arrival of Africans and Descent
into Slavery The First Africans The Descent into Permanent Slavery Was
There Race Before Slavery? Why the Preference for Africans? The Problem of
Labor A Focus on Physical Differences and the Invention of Social Meanings
Notes 6. Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude
The Background Literature and the Issues of Slavery The Nature of Slavery A
Brief History of Old World Slavery Colonial Slavery Under the Spanish and
Portuguese Uniqueness of the English Experience of Slavery The Significance
of Slavery in the Creation of Race Ideology Notes 7. Eighteenth-Century
Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race Social Values of
the American Colonists Nature's Hierarchy Dominant Themes in North American
Racial Beliefs Anglo-Saxonism: The Making of a Biological Myth Thomas
Jefferson and the American Dilemma Notes 8. Antislavery and the
Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview A Brief History of Antislavery Thought
The Proslavery Response The Sociocult