Race in North America : origin and evolution of a worldview / Audrey Smedley.

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Main Author: Smedley, Audrey
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Race.
Racism > History.
Racism > North America > History.
Black race.
Slavery > History.
Physical Description:xiv, 386 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Some theoretical considerations
  • The etymology of the term "race" in the English language
  • Antecedents of the racial worldview
  • The growth of the english ideology about human differences in America
  • The arrival of Africans and descent into slavery
  • Comparing slave systems : the significance of "racial" servitude
  • The rise of science : early attempts to classify human populations
  • Late eighteenth-century thought and crystallization of the ideology of race
  • Antislavery and the entrenchment of a racial worldview
  • A different order of being : nineteenth-century science and the ideology of race
  • Science and the growth and expansion of race ideology
  • Twentieth-century developments in race ideology
  • Changing perspectives on human variation in science
  • Dismantling the folk idea of race : transformations of an ideology.