Download or read book Race written by Alan H. Goodman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on race today Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists and illustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We So Different? is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea of race, demonstrating how current scientific understanding is often inconsistent with popular notions of race. Taken from the popular national public education project and museum exhibition, it explores the contemporary experience of race and racism in the United States and the often-invisible ways race and racism have influenced laws, customs, and social institutions.
Download or read book The Inequality of Human Races written by Arthur comte de Gobineau and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Race Ethnicity and Power written by Elaine Pinderhughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1989 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: foreword by Alvin Pouissant.505::Introduction--Culture, social interaction, and the human services--Understanding difference--Understanding ethnicity--Understanding race--Understanding power--Assessment--Treatment--Afterword: Beyond the cultural interface--Appendix: Teaching methods--Notes--References--Index.
Download or read book The Equality of the Human Races written by Joseph-Anténor Firmin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Antnor Firmin's The Equality of the Human Races, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was just emerging as a specialized field of study. Marginalized for its ""radical"" position that the human races were equal, Firmin's lucid and persuasive treatise was decades ahead of its time. Arguing that the equality of the races could be demonstrated through a positivist scientific approach, Firmin challenged racist writings and the dominant views of the day. Translated by Asselin Charles and framed by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban's substantial introduction, this rediscovered text is an important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies."
Download or read book The Invisible History of the Human Race written by Christine Kenneally and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? What role does Neanderthal DNA play in our genetic makeup? How did the theory of eugenics embraced by Nazi Germany first develop? How is trust passed down in Africa, and silence inherited in Tasmania? How are private companies like Ancestry.com uncovering, preserving and potentially editing the past? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history. She breaks down myths of determinism and draws on cutting - edge research to explore how both historical artefacts and our DNA tell us where we have come from and where we may be going.
Download or read book Understanding Human Races written by Professor Donald E. Mbosowo, PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible, Torah, Koran, and historical records show that Adam and Eve were the fi rst family and that every human being on earth came from Adam. These claims indicate that there was only one human race, the Adamic race. The Bible and Bible scholars believe that Noah had three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and concluded that the three human races were the progeny of Noah’s three sons. This book questions whether Noah married three wives from three different racial groups. The book claims that there were three different racial groups. The fi rst two lines of racial groups were in the Garden of Eden, and they left the garden after Adam had sinned. The third race emerged from the interracial marriage between the fi rst two lines of racial groups that left the garden. The fi rst race came from Adam and Eve, and through Seth, the race was represented by Ham. The second race came from Eve and Lucifer through Eve’s sexual relationship with Lucifer that produced Cain as Lucifer’s son; and through Cain, another human race evolved, which was represented by Shem. The third race came from the intermarriage between the Hamitic race and Shemitic race, and that race was represented by Japheth. Adam fell into sin and lost his position of authority and power to Lucifer, and Lucifer ruled over him and determined to destroy the Adamic race by the Flood so that his Luciferian race could inherit the earth. This book argues that Noah did not marry and did not have any children. He was a prophet chosen by the I AM to save the Adamic race from being exterminated by Noah’s fl ood. The Bible call it Noah’s fl ood, but it was Lucifer’s fl ood. This shows that Noah’s fl ood was local, and through it, Lucifer targeted the Adamic race to destroy it. After the Flood, Lucifer knew that the Adamic race was not completely destroyed. He engineered Shem and Japheth to accuse Ham of seeing Noah’s nakedness, and that accusation made Lucifer, who became the God of Shem, instituted the spiritual law of slavery against Ham and his descendants (Gen. 9:24–27). It was that law that allowed the Shemitic race (Jews), Japhethic race (Arabs), and Europeans to enslave the descendants of Ham (Africans). The composition of human races is the cause of all the problems of wars, domination, injustice, and slavery in this world. This book will enlighten us into putting an end to these problems, especially the enslavement of the original creation, so as to bring peace to humanity.
Download or read book Human Races written by Stanley Marion Garn and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race in the Making written by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. The book also challenges the conventional wisdom that race is purely a social construction by demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them. Starting from the commonplace observation that race is a category of both power and the mind, Race in the Making directly tackles this issue. Through a sustained exploration of continuity and change in the child's notion of race and across historical variations in the race concept, Hirschfeld shows that a singular commonsense theory about human kinds constrains the way racial thinking changes, whether in historical time or during childhood. After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race, Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine children's (and occasionally adults') representations of race. He sketches how a jointly cultural and psychological approach to race might proceed, showing how this approach yields new insights into the emergence and elaboration of racial thinking.
Download or read book Troublesome Science written by Rob DeSalle and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique of how scientific tools have been misused to uphold misguided racial categorizations. DeSalle and Tattersall argue that taxonomy, the scientific classification of organisms, provides an antidote to the myth of race’s biological basis. They explain how taxonomists do their science—how to identify a species and to understand the relationships among different species and the variants within them. DeSalle and Tattersall also detail the use of genetic data to trace human origins and look at how scientists have attempted to recognize discrete populations within Homo sapiens. Troublesome Science demonstrates conclusively that modern genetic tools, when applied correctly to the study of human variety, fail to find genuine differences. While the diversity that exists within our species is a real phenomenon, it nevertheless defeats any systematic attempt to recognize discrete units within it. The stark lines that humans insist on drawing between their own groups and others are nothing but a mixture of imagination and ideology. Troublesome Science is an important call for researchers, journalists, and citizens to cast aside the belief that race has a biological meaning, for the sake of social justice and sound science alike.
Download or read book Origin Evolution of the Human Race written by Albert Churchward and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Human Race written by Sean Callery and published by QED Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated, large format book, explores human achievements and the desire to be the first, the fastest, the best in history.
Download or read book The Myth of Race written by Robert Wald Sussman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today. The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned “Aryans,” as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization—policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas’s new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
Download or read book The Nature of Race written by Ann Morning and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and index.
Download or read book Understanding Human Races written by Professor Donald E. Mbosowo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible, Torah, Koran, and historical records show that Adam and Eve were the fi rst family and that every human being on earth came from Adam. These claims indicate that there was only one human race, the Adamic race. The Bible and Bible scholars believe that Noah had three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and concluded that the three human races were the progeny of Noah's three sons. This book questions whether Noah married three wives from three different racial groups. The book claims that there were three different racial groups. The fi rst two lines of racial groups were in the Garden of Eden, and they left the garden after Adam had sinned. The third race emerged from the interracial marriage between the fi rst two lines of racial groups that left the garden. The fi rst race came from Adam and Eve, and through Seth, the race was represented by Ham. The second race came from Eve and Lucifer through Eve's sexual relationship with Lucifer that produced Cain as Lucifer's son; and through Cain, another human race evolved, which was represented by Shem. The third race came from the intermarriage between the Hamitic race and Shemitic race, and that race was represented by Japheth. Adam fell into sin and lost his position of authority and power to Lucifer, and Lucifer ruled over him and determined to destroy the Adamic race by the Flood so that his Luciferian race could inherit the earth. This book argues that Noah did not marry and did not have any children. He was a prophet chosen by the I AM to save the Adamic race from being exterminated by Noah's fl ood. The Bible call it Noah's fl ood, but it was Lucifer's fl ood. This shows that Noah's fl ood was local, and through it, Lucifer targeted the Adamic race to destroy it. After the Flood, Lucifer knew that the Adamic race was not completely destroyed. He engineered Shem and Japheth to accuse Ham of seeing Noah's nakedness, and that accusation made Lucifer, who became the God of Shem, instituted the spiritual law of slavery against Ham and his descendants (Gen. 9:24 27). It was that law that allowed the Shemitic race (Jews), Japhethic race (Arabs), and Europeans to enslave the descendants of Ham (Africans). The composition of human races is the cause of all the problems of wars, domination, injustice, and slavery in this world. This book will enlighten us into putting an end to these problems, especially the enslavement of the original creation, so as to bring peace to humanity.
Download or read book Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population of older Americans grows, it is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Differences in health by racial and ethnic status could be increasingly consequential for health policy and programs. Such differences are not simply a matter of education or ability to pay for health care. For instance, Asian Americans and Hispanics appear to be in better health, on a number of indicators, than White Americans, despite, on average, lower socioeconomic status. The reasons are complex, including possible roles for such factors as selective migration, risk behaviors, exposure to various stressors, patient attitudes, and geographic variation in health care. This volume, produced by a multidisciplinary panel, considers such possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. It provides a concise summary of available research and lays out a research agenda to address the many uncertainties in current knowledge. It recommends, for instance, looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors presumably producing differentials and biopsychosocial mechanisms that lead to impaired health.
Download or read book Genetic Nature Culture written by Prof. Alan H. Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious—or more fraught with paradox—than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. Individual essays address issues raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution, and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases; gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals. The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology, nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of genetics, Genetic Nature/Culture is a model of fruitful dialogue, presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the two-cultures debate.
Download or read book What s the Use of Race written by Ian Whitmarsh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine. The post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by discoveries in genetics. Although in 2000 the Human Genome Project reported that humans shared 99.9 percent of their genetic code, scientists soon began to argue that the degree of variation was actually greater than this, and that this variation maps naturally onto conventional categories of race. In the context of this rejuvenated biology of race, the contributors to What's the Use of Race? Investigate whether race can be a category of analysis without reinforcing it as a basis for discrimination. Can policies that aim to alleviate inequality inadvertently increase it by reifying race differences? The essays focus on contemporary questions at the cutting edge of genetics and governance, examining them from the perspectives of law, science, and medicine. The book follows the use of race in three domains of governance: ruling, knowing, and caring. Contributors first examine the use of race and genetics in the courtroom, law enforcement, and scientific oversight; then explore the ways that race becomes, implicitly or explicitly, part of the genomic science that attempts to address human diversity; and finally investigate how race is used to understand and act on inequities in health and disease. Answering these questions is essential for setting policies for biology and citizenship in the twenty-first century.
