How Real Is Race? - A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology

Informationen zum Autor By Carol C. Mukhopadhyay; Rosemary Henze and Yolanda T. Moses Klappentext Drawing on biocultural perspectives, How Real Is Race? Second Edition employs an activity-oriented approach to engage readers in unraveling-and rethinking-the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. Zusammenfassung Drawing on biocultural perspectives, How Real Is Race? Second Edition employs an activity-oriented approach to engage readers in unraveling—and rethinking—the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by James A. BanksAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Fallacy of Race as BiologyIntroduction to Part 11 Why Contemporary Races Are Not Scientifically Valid2 Human Biological Variation: What We Don't See3 If Not Race, How Do We Explain Biological Differences?4 More Alike Than Different, More Different Than AlikePart 2: Culture Creates RaceIntroduction to Part 25 Culture Shapes How We Experience Reality6 Culture and Classification: Race Is Culturally Real7 Race and Inequality: Race as a Social Invention to Achieve Certain Goals8 Cross-Cultural Overview of Race9 If Race Doesn't Exist, What Are We Seeing? Sex, Mating, and RacePart 3: Race and Hot-Button Issues in SchoolsIntroduction to Part 310 When is it racism? Who is a racist? 11 The Academic Achievement Gap and Equity12 Assemblies, Clubs, Slurs, and Racial Labels13 Interracial Flirting and Dating in SchoolsPart 4: ResourcesReferencesKey Websites (Annotated)List of ActivitiesIndexAbout the AuthorsEndorsements

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• Authors: Rosemary Henze, Rosemary C. Henze, Yolanda T. Moses, Moses Yolanda T., Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Carol C. Henze Mukhopadhyay, Mukhopadhyay Carol C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 15 to 30
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9780759122734
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-2273-4
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Physical anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies