Race : are we so different? /

• Main Author: Goodman, Alan H.
• Other Authors: Moses, Yolanda T., Jones, Joseph L.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Wiley-Blackwell ; 2012.; [Arlington, VA] : American Anthropological Association, 2012.
• Subjects: Race > Social aspects > United States.; Race > Social aspects.; Racism > United States.; Racism.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.; United States.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Regarding race
• Part 1: Histories of race, difference, and racism
• Introducing race
• Creating race
• Human mismeasure
• Inventing whiteness
• Separate and unequal
• Part 2: Why human variation is not racial
• Introduction: Race [does not equal] human biological variation
• Skin deep?
• Sickle cell disease : not for blacks only
• The apportionment of variation, or ... why we are all Africans under the skin
• The evolution of variation
• Part 3: Living with race and racism
• Introduction: living with race and racism
• Race and the census
• Race and education
• Linking race and wealth: an American dilemma
• Race and health disparities.