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Informationen zum Autor Julius O. Adekunle is a professor of African history at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Rwanda (2007) and the editor of Religion in Politics: Secularism and National Integration in Modern Nigeria (2009). Hettie V. Williams teaches United States history, world history, western civilization, and upper division courses on the history of African Americans at Monmouth University. She is the author of We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Revolt (1962-1968) (University Press of America, 2008). Klappentext This book is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and is divided into three sections, beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world. Zusammenfassung This book is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity! written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history! sociology! women's studies! and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical! chronological framework and is divided into three sections! beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Part 1: The First Complex Societies to Modern Times Part 5 1. Race, Science, and Human Origins in Africa Part 6 2. Race and the Rise of the Swahili Culture Part 7 3. 'Caste'-[ing] Gender: Caste and Patriarchy in Ancient Hindu Jurisprudence Part 8 4. Comparative Race and Slavery in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Texts, Practices, and Current Implications Part 9 5. The Dark Craven Jew: Race and Religion in Medieval Europe Part 10 6. Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Racial Slavery in the New World Part 11 7. The Yellow Lady: Mulatto Women in the Suriname Plantocracy Chapter 12 Part 2: Race and Mixed Race in the Americas Part 13 8. Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Approaches to Resistance and Social Justice Part 14 9. Militant Multiraciality: Rejecting Race and Rejecting the Conveniences of Complicity Part 15 10. Whiteness Reconstructed: Multiracial Identity as a Category of "New White" Part 16 11. Conversations in Black and White: The Limitations of Binary Thinking About Race in America Part 17 12. The Necessity of a Multiracial Category in a Race-Conscious Society Part 18 13. Mixed Race Terminologies in the Americas: Globalizing the Creole in the Twenty First Century Part 19 14. Examining the Regional and Multigenerational Context of Creole and American Indian Identity Part 20 15. Race, Class, and Power: The Politics of Multiraciality in Brazil Part 21 16. All Mixed Up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global Perspective Chapter 22 Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Contemporary Societies Part 23 17. Black No More: African Americans and the 'New' Race Science Part 24 18. Contesting Identities of Color: African Female Immigrants in the Americas Part 25 19. Burdened Intersections: Black Women and Race, Gender, and Class Part 26 20. Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Communal Violence within the Matrix of the Colonial Legacy, Globalization, and Global Stability Part 27 21. Ethnic Identity in China: The Politics of Cultural Difference Part 28 22. Shangri-la has Forsaken Us: China's Ethnic Minorities, Identity, and Government Repression Part 29 23. The Russian/Chechen Conflict and It's Consequences Chapter 30 Contributors Chapter 31 Index...
