Race in North America : origin and evolution of a worldview /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
[2007]
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Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of 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.