What we now know about race and ethnicity
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What we now know about race and ethnicity
Berghahn Books, c2015
- : pbk
- : hardback
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [158]-161
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Paradox
Chapter 1. The Scientific Sources of the Paradox
Two dimensions
Taxonomy
Typology
Darwin and Mendel
Two Vocabularies
The Power of the Ordinary Language Construct
Chapter 2. The Political Sources of the Paradox
Social Categories and Their Names
After the Civil War
Discrimination
The 'One-Drop' Rule
Counter Trends
Chapter 3. International Pragmatism
The Racial Convention
Implementing the Convention
Other International Action
Naming the Categories
Chapter 4. Sociological Knowledge
Theoretical or Practical?
The Chicago School
In World Perspective
Social Race?
Chapter 5. Conceptions of Racism
Writing History
Teaching Philosophy
Teaching Sociology
Sociological Textbooks
Political Ends
Chapter 6. Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity
Census categories
Anthropology
A New Reality?
Nomenclature
Sociobiology
Ethnic Origin as a Social Sign
Comparative Politics
The Current Sociology of Ethnicity
Chapter 7. Collective Action
The Rediscovery of Weber's 1911 Notes
Four Propositions
Closure
The Human Capital Variable
The Colour Variable
Ethnic Preferences
Opening relationships
Conclusion: The Paradox Resolved
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