What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity

• Main Author: Banton, Michael
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Berghahn Books 01.10.2015; Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural & Ethnic Studies; Ethnic Studies; Ethnicity; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; political philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Race; race and politics; race in America; Race relations; race theory; racism; Social and political philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Sociology; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy; Topics in philosophy; United States
• ISBN: 9781785336584; 1785336584; 9781782387176; 178238717X; 1782386130; 1782386033; 9781782386032; 9781782386131
• DOI: 10.3167/9781782386032

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.