1st Edition

The Idea Of Race

By Michael Banton Copyright 1979
    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book deals with the study of race relations as a general body of knowledge which tries to bring together in a common framework studies of group relations in different countries. It explores the intellectual context within which the old conception of race relations arose.

    The intellectual inheritance -- The racializing of the West -- The racializing of the world -- A nineteenth-century racial philosophy: Charles Kingsley -- Social Darwinism -- Social interaction -- Structure and function -- Ethnogenesis -- The idea of racism

    Biography

    Michael Banton