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oapen-20.500.12657-300222024-03-25T09:51:40Z What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity Banton, Michael Anthropology race theory racism ethnic studies race and politics race in America political philosophy Sociology United States thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to “race,” “racism,” and “ethnicity” in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:42:48Z 2020-04-01T12:42:48Z 2015-10-01 book 650074 OCN: 935495033 9781785336584 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30022 eng application/pdf n/a 650074.pdf Berghahn Books 101586 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785336584 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101586 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to “race,” “racism,” and “ethnicity” in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.
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