ISBN:
0511007361
,
9780511007361
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 253 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Banton, Michael, 1926- Racial theories
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Race
;
Race relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Race
;
Race relations
;
Geschichte
;
Rassentheorie
;
Rassentheorieën
;
Racisme
;
Relations interethniques
;
Race
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Race as designation -- Race as lineage -- Race as type -- Race as subspecies -- Race as status -- Race as class -- Race as social construct.
Abstract:
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific conceptions of race as a form of status. In a new concluding chapter, 'Race as social construct', Michael Banton makes the case for a historically sensitive social scientific understanding of racial and ethnic groupings which operates within a more general theory of collective action and is, therefore, able to replace racial explanations as effectively as they have been replaced in biological science. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand contemporary debates about racial and ethnic conflict
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-247) and index. - Description based on print version record
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