ISBN:
9781782386131
,
1782386130
,
9781785336584
,
1785336584
,
9781782386032
,
1782386033
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 169 Seiten)
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Race
;
Ethnicity
;
Ethnicity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies
;
Social and political philosophy
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE General
;
Social & political philosophy
;
Ethnicity
;
Race
;
Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish "race" as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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