Race: Are We So Different?

Perspectives on race today

Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists andillustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We SoDifferent? is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea ofrace, demonstrating how current scientific understanding is ofteninconsistent with popular notions of race. Taken from the popularnational public education project and museum exhibition, itexplores the contemporary experience of race and racism in theUnited States and the often-invisible ways race and racism haveinfluenced laws, customs, and social institutions.

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Race: Are We So Different?

Perspectives on race today

Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists andillustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We SoDifferent? is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea ofrace, demonstrating how current scientific understanding is ofteninconsistent with popular notions of race. Taken from the popularnational public education project and museum exhibition, itexplores the contemporary experience of race and racism in theUnited States and the often-invisible ways race and racism haveinfluenced laws, customs, and social institutions.

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Perspectives on race today

Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists andillustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We SoDifferent? is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea ofrace, demonstrating how current scientific understanding is ofteninconsistent with popular notions of race. Taken from the popularnational public education project and museum exhibition, itexplores the contemporary experience of race and racism in theUnited States and the often-invisible ways race and racism haveinfluenced laws, customs, and social institutions.


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ISBN-13: 9780470657140
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 10/02/2012
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alan H. Goodman is Vice President for Academic Affairsand Dean of Faculty at Hampshire College. A biologicalanthropologist who has written extensively on human variation andthe biological consequences of inequality and poverty, he co-leadsthe national public education project sponsored by the AAA andfunded by NSF and the Ford Foundation. Goodman is a past Presidentof the AAA. 

Yolanda T. Moses is Professor of Anthropology, AssociateVice Chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity at theUniversity of California, Riverside. A cultural anthropologist, shehas published extensively on issues of social inequality in complexsocieties and cultural diversity in higher education in the UnitedStates, India, and South Africa. She chaired the NationalAdvisory Committee composed of distinguished scholars and curatorsthat designed the original exhibit and website.She co-leads thenational public education project sponsored by the AAA and fundedby NSF and the Ford Foundation. Moses is past President of theAAA.

Joseph L. Jones is former RACE project manager for theAmerican Anthropological Association. He also has writtenextensively on race and the stresses of enslavement. He isfinishing his dissertation from University of Massachusetts Amherston “The Political Ecology of Early Childhood Lead Exposurefor Enslaved Africans from the New York African BurialGround.”

Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) isthe world’s largest professional organization of scholars andpractitioners in the field of anthropology. With over 11 thousandmembers, the Arlington, Virginia-based association includesarchaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biologicalanthropologists, linguists, and applied anthropologists from aroundthe world. AAA publishes 22 peer-reviewed scholarly journals andconducts the largest annual meeting of anthropologists in theworld. 

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Regarding Race 1

Part 1 Histories of Race, Difference, and Racism 7

2 Introducing Race 9

3 Creating Race 15

4 Human Mismeasure 26

5 Inventing Whiteness 44

6 Separate and Unequal 67

Part 2 Why Human Variation Is Not Racial 91

7 Introduction: Race ≠ Human Biological Variation 93

8 Skin Deep? 101

9 Sickle Cell Disease: Not for Blacks Only 111

10 The Apportionment of Variation, or … Why We Are AllAfricans Under the Skin 123

11 The Evolution of Variation 133

Part 3 Living with Race and Racism 145

12 Introduction: Living with Race and Racism 147

13 Race and the Census 154

14 Race and Education 174

15 Linking Race and Wealth: An American Dilemma 195

16 Race and Health Disparities 214

17 Conclusion 231

Glossary 246

Index 253

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