{"id":12879,"date":"2011-03-26T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2011-03-26T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T03:01:17","slug":"the-vertical-and-horizontal-dimensions-of-the-word-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12879","title":{"rendered":"The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796809354529\" target=\"_blank\">The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnicities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/10\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 10, Number 1<\/a> (March 2010)<br \/>\npages 127-140<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796809354529\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1468796809354529<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/spais\/people\/person\/140\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Banton<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Univeristy of Bristol<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word <em>race<\/em> has been used both to classify humans and to account for differences between those assigned to the resulting classes or taxa. The two dimensions (horizontal and vertical) are inherent in the conception of race. Initially, the word was used in ways that gave more expression to the sense of descent embodied in the vertical dimension. Since the early 19th century, the word has been used in ways that express the sense of classification reflected in the horizontal dimension. Some histories of thought about human origins and divisions have assumed, wrongly, that a \u2018scientific concept of race\u2019 was at some time established within anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/10\/1\/127.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 127-140 DOI: 10.1177\/1468796809354529 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol The word race has been used both to classify humans and to account for differences between those assigned to the resulting classes or taxa. The two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394],"tags":[994,5761],"class_list":["post-12879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-ethnicities","tag-michael-banton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}