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.