"Race" and racism [electronic resource] : the development of modern racism in America / Richard J. Perry.
Perry, Richard John, 1942-
2007
E185 .P47 2007eb
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Title "Race" and racism [electronic resource] : the development of modern racism in America / Richard J. Perry.
Author Perry, Richard John, 1942-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780230609198 (electronic book)
9780230600775
0230600778
Publication Details New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 263 p.)
Call Number E185 .P47 2007eb
Summary "Race" and Racism examines the origins and development of racism in North America. It addresses the inception and persistence of the concept of "race" and discusses the biology of human variance, addressing the fossil record of human evolution, the relationship between creationism and science, population genetics, race-based medicine, and other related issues. The book explores the diverse ways in which people in a variety of cultures have perceived, categorized, and defined one another without reference to any concept of race. It follows the history of American racism through slavery, the perceptions and treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow laws, attitudes toward Irish and Southern European immigrants, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the civil rights era, and numerous other topics.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Race" : fact or artifact?
The biology of human variance
Internal cohesion and social boundaries
How did it start?
Intellectual and political sources of racism
From the Civil War to World War II
From World War II to the present
Will we ever be rid of it?.

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