{"id":42830,"date":"2015-09-21T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42830"},"modified":"2019-06-19T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:59:13","slug":"race-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42830","title":{"rendered":"Race: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/anthropology\/social-and-cultural-anthropology\/race-introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race: An Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge University Press<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 2015<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\n13 b\/w illus. 4 tables<br \/>\n245 x 190 x 12 mm<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9781107034112<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781107652286<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/research\/peter.wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Wade<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Social Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part One explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part Two outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world. Examining how humans have used ideas of physical appearance, heredity and behaviour as criteria for categorising others, the text guides students through provocative questions such as: what is race? Does studying race reinforce racism? Does a colour-blind approach dismantle, or merely mask, racism? How does biology feed into concepts of race? Numerous case studies, photos, figures and tables help students to appreciate the different meanings of race in varied contexts, and end-of-chapter research tasks provide further support for student learning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Combines a broad historical overview (from the ancient world to the present day) with wide geographical and comparative coverage to show that race means different things in different contexts<\/li>\n<li>Detailed historical and ethnographic material in textboxes, figures, photos and tables demonstrates the operation of race in everyday life<\/li>\n<li>Offers an up-to-date, critical overview of a fast-changing field<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/anthropology\/social-and-cultural-anthropology\/race-introduction C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811076\/52286\/cover\/9781107652286.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811070\/34112\/frontmatter\/9781107034112_frontmatter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of figures<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811070\/34112\/frontmatter\/9781107034112_frontmatter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of tables<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811070\/34112\/frontmatter\/9781107034112_frontmatter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preface<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811070\/34112\/frontmatter\/9781107034112_frontmatter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acknowledgements<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811070\/34112\/excerpt\/9781107034112_excerpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 Knowing \u2018race\u2019<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1.1 Chronology of race<\/li>\n<li>1.2 Is race defined by appearance, biology and nature?<\/li>\n<li>1.3 Culture, appearance and biology revisited<\/li>\n<li>1.4 Race, comparatively and historically<\/li>\n<li>1.5 Comparisons<\/li>\n<li>1.6 Race in the history of Western modernity<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion: so what is race?<\/li>\n<li>Further research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part I race in time<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Early approaches to understanding human variation\n<ul>\n<li>2.1 Nature and culture<\/li>\n<li>2.2 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancient Greece<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Rome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rome<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2.3 Medieval and early modern Europe<\/li>\n<li>2.4 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_World\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New World<\/a> colonisation<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>3 From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Enlightenment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enlightenment<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eugenics<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>3.1 Transitions<\/li>\n<li>3.2 Changing racial theories<\/li>\n<li>3.3 The spread of racial theory: nation, class, gender and religion<\/li>\n<li>3.4 Nature, culture and race<\/li>\n<li>3.5 Black reaction<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>4 Biology, culture and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genomics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genomics<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>4.1 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Darwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin<\/a> (again), genetics and the concept of population<\/li>\n<li>4.2 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Boas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boas<\/a> and the separation of biology and culture<\/li>\n<li>4.3 Nazism, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a> and decolonisation<\/li>\n<li>4.4 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNESCO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNESCO<\/a> and after<\/li>\n<li>4.5 The persistence of race in science<\/li>\n<li>4.6 Race and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence_quotient\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4.7 Race and sport<\/li>\n<li>4.8 Race, genomics and medicine: does race have a genetic basis?<\/li>\n<li>4.9 Race, genomics and medicine: racialising populations<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>5 Race in the era of cultural racism: politics and the everyday\n<ul>\n<li>5.1 Introduction<\/li>\n<li>5.2 The institutional presence of race<\/li>\n<li>5.3 Race, nature and biology in the everyday world of culture<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part II Race in practice<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>6 Latin America: mixture and racism\n<ul>\n<li>6.1 Introduction<\/li>\n<li>6.2 Latin America and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mestizaje<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>6.3 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colombia<\/a>: racial discrimination and social movements<\/li>\n<li>6.4 Structural disadvantage, region and mestizaje: lessons from Colombia<\/li>\n<li>6.5 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a>: variations on a theme<\/li>\n<li>6.6 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guatemala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guatemala<\/a>: racial ambivalence<\/li>\n<li>6.7 Performing and embodying race in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andean_Community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>7 The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa<\/a>: segregation and desegregation\n<ul>\n<li>7.1 Changing US demographics<\/li>\n<li>7.2 Caste and class in segregated Southern towns<\/li>\n<li>7.3 Black reaction and \u2018desegregation\u2019<\/li>\n<li>7.4 Segregation in practice: \u2018the ghetto\u2019<\/li>\n<li>7.5 Latinos and brownness<\/li>\n<li>7.6 South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>8 Race in Europe: immigration and nation\n<ul>\n<li>8.1 European histories of race<\/li>\n<li>8.2 Issues in post-colonial migration in Europe<\/li>\n<li>8.3 White Britons in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leicestershire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leicestershire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8.4 Asian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leicester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leicester<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8.5 The Asian gang in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8.6 Geographies of race in black <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8.7 Algerians in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Further activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>9 Conclusion\n<ul>\n<li>9.1 Theorising race<\/li>\n<li>9.2 Globalising race<\/li>\n<li>9.3 The future of race<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>References<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811070\/34112\/index\/9781107034112_index.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Index<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part One explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part Two outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,83,21,28,2039,459,8,17,394,520,10,20],"tags":[1956,1865,96,1489,1864],"class_list":["post-42830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","category-uk","category-usa","tag-cambridge-university-press","tag-colombia","tag-france","tag-guatemala","tag-peter-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42830","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=42830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58359,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42830\/revisions\/58359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}