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Thinking Race argues that racism results from a misguided blending of biological facts with pernicious socially constructed ideas. This book aims to help readers accept the reality of human difference while understanding human unity.
About the author
Mary Catherine Bateson is Robinson Professor emerita of Anthropology at George Mason University in Virginia. She followed her parents, Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, into anthropology, with an emphasis on Linguistics and Middle Eastern studies. She has taught at Harvard, Amherst, and Northeastern Universities, and served as visiting faculty at Spelman College and Ateneo de Manila University in Manila, and Damavand College and University of Tehran in Iran. She holds a joint doctorate in linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard and half a dozen honorary doctorates, is the author of five books (including a memoir of her parents), and co-author of two others, Thinking AIDS with Richard Goldsby and Angels Fear with Gregory Bateson.
Richard A. Goldsby is the Thomas Walton Jr. Memorial Professor emeritus at Amherst College. Now Visiting Scientist at MIT's associated Whitehead Institute, he has taught at Amherst, the Universities of Massachusetts and Maryland, Stanford and at Yale, where he was briefly Master of Pierson College. He has written books in the areas of immunology, cancer, AIDS and race This is the second book he has co-authored with Mary Catherine Bateson.
Summary
Thinking Race argues that racism results from a misguided blending of biological facts with pernicious socially constructed ideas. This book aims to help readers accept the reality of human difference while understanding human unity.
