How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture
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HRR (How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology and Culture) deconstructs the myth of race as biology and addresses the reality of race as cultural invention, drawing on biocultural, historical, and cross-cultural anthropological perspectives, and demonstrating the interplay among race, biology, culture, power, and stratification. Part I, “The Fallacy of Race as Biology,” unravels the myth of races as biological divisions of humanity. Part II, “Culture Creates Race,” explores race as a social construct, ideology, and device, through interracial sex-marriage restrictions, for maintaining visible markers of racial hierarchy. Part III, “Contemporary Issues,” addresses racial stratification in education, health, and how language embodies and reinforces a racial worldview. This new edition focuses more explicitly on the racial worldview as an ideology of difference, rationale for race-based stratification, and a device to mask other forms of inequality. It includes two new chapters “Unpacking the Health Consequences of Racial Stratification,” and “Dismantling the Racial World View,” as well as significant updates-expansions of Parts I & II. A complementary website features learning activities and web-based resources.
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1-26-2025
Publisher
Rowman and Littlefield/ Bloomsbury
Edition
3rd
