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This collection of original essays by scholars from a diverse range of fields, examines issues of race in a variety of historical and geographical settings, ranging from classical Greece to the contemporary Americas, Europe and Asia. The authors provide an important perspective on race both in its theoretical origins and in its actual appearances while paying close attention to the ways in which the study of race itself has been carried on or ignored by various disciplines.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I: Questioning the "Science" of Race
Chapter 3 1 Why Race is not a Biological Concept
Chapter 4 2 From Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century Racial Science: Continuity and Change
Chapter 5 3 The Meaning of "Race": Psychology's Troubled History
Chapter 6 4 Nazi Antisemitism and the "Science of Race"
Part 7 II: Between Race and Slavery: The Variations of Culture
Chapter 8 5 Race and Culture: Medieval Notions of Difference
Chapter 9 6 Enslavement and Manumission in Ancient Greece
Chapter 10 7 American Negro Slavery: A Reconsideration
Chapter 11 8 Genealogies of Race and Culture in Anthropology: The Marginalized Ethnographer
Part 12 III: Race and the Literary Imagination
Chapter 13 9 The Continental Fallacy of Race
Chapter 14 10 Getting BasiL Bambara's Re-visioning of the Black Aesthetic
Chapter 15 11 Beautiful Americans
Chapter 16 12 From Colonization to Immigration: The French School in Francophone African Fiction
Part 17 IV:Race or Class: Which is it?
Chapter 18 13 Economics and Motivation: (Dis)entangling Race and Class
Chapter 19 14 Race and Class: Why All the Confusion?
Chapter 20 15 Race and Medicine: The Black Experience
Chapter 21 16 The Race for Class

Product details

Published 10 Jan 2000
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781461666097
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Berel Lang

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Dina L. Anselmi

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Janet Bauer

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Jack Chatfield

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Andrew J. Gold

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Priscilla Kehoe

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Berel Lang

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Paul Lauter

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Sonia M. Lee

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James Muldoon

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Dalia Ofer

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Gary Reger

Gary Reger is Hobart professor of classical langua…

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King-fai Tam

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Maurice L. Wade

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Johnny E. Williams

Johnny E. Williams is associate professor of socio…

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