Blinding Light Of Race Race And Racism

Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume examines biological and cultural data that debunk a primordial basis for racism. It tracks the ancient history of all social inequity to agricultural and feudal societies. The book then focuses on social and ideological developments in European societies associated with religious justifications for the enslavement of \u0091others.\u0092 The European Enlightenment built upon those prejudices with ideas about nature and acceptable natural causes of unequal social status for people newly classified into biological races. Nineteenth century anthropology is critiqued by African diasporic scholars who are the first Americans to argue that nurture rather than nature is responsible for human variation. The American Civil War brought slavery nearly to an end, but racist science continued to\n\nAnthropology and Slavery at the Dawn of White Supremacy\nRace and Racism in Western Science and Society, Volume 1\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available wit;