| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-303) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: what is race? -- What do we know about scientific and popular concepts of race? -- Textbook race: lessons on human difference -- Teaching race: scientists on human difference -- Learning race: students on human difference -- Race concepts beyond the classroom -- Conclusion: the redemption of essentialism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What do Americans think 'race' means? What determines one's race, appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, the author takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates, she explores different conceptions of race, finding for example, that while many sociologists now assume that race is a social invention or 'construct, ' anthropologists and biologists are far from such a consensus. She discusses powerful new genetic accounts of race, and considers how corporations and the government use scientific research, for example, in designing DNA ancestry tests or census questionnaires, in ways that often reinforce the idea that race is biologically determined. Widening the debate about race beyond the pages of scholarly journals, this book dissects competing definitions in straightforward language to reveal the logic and assumptions underpinning today's claims about human difference"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Race.
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Race. |
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Racism in anthropology.
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Racism in anthropology. |
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Racism in education.
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Racism in education. |
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Racism in textbooks.
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Racism in textbooks. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morning, Ann Juanita, 1968- Nature of race. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520270305 (DLC) 2011000291 (OCoLC)696321793 |
| ISBN |
9780520950146 (electronic book) |
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0520950143 (electronic book) |
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9780520270305 |
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0520270304 |
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9780520270312 |
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0520270312 |
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9781283278409 |
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1283278405 |
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