1st Edition

The Idea Of Race

By Michael Banton Copyright 1979
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

200 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