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| Contents |
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. |
| Local note | Little-348222--305131054544Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-371) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006028500 |
| ISBN | 0813343577 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780813343570 (pbk.) |
