Introducing race, human variation, and racism -- Histories of race, difference, and racism. Introducing race ; Creating race ; Human mismeasure ; Inventing whiteness ; Separate and unequal -- Why human variation is not racial. Introduction : Race [does not equal] human biological variation ; Skin deep? ; Sickle cell disease: not for blacks only ; The apportionment of variation, or why we are all Africans under the skin ; The evolution of variation -- Living with race and racism. Introduction ; The census and making race "official" ; Race and education ; Linking race and wealth: an American dilemma ; Race and health inequalities ; Conclusion.
Summary:
"Fully updated edition of this popular companion to AAA's RACE exhibition. Now with an international focus to encourage use as a stand-alone textbook for undergraduate and graduate students for courses on race. Explores the contemporary experience of race and racism, and the often-invisible ways race influences laws, customs, and social institutions. Includes engaging short essays by noted anthropologists to illustrate personal, historical, and scientific concepts of race. Illustrated in full colour with images from the popular US public education project and museum exhibit "RACE: Are we so different?""-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.