Examines the ways perceptions of race influence laws, customs, and social institutions in the US and around the world
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiv
1 Introducing Race, Human Variation, and Racism 1
Part 1 Histories of Race, Difference, and Racism 7
2 Inventing Race 9
3 Creating Race 15
4 Human Mismeasure 27
5 Inventing Whiteness 45
6 Separate and Unequal 69
Part 2 Why Human Variation is Not Racial 91
7 Introduction: Race ≠ Human Biological Variation 93
8 Skin Deep? 101
9 Sickle Cell Disease: Not for Blacks Only 111
10 The Apportionment of Variation, or …: Why We are All Africans Under the Skin 123
11 The Evolution of Variation 133
Part 3 Living with Race and Racism 147
12 Introduction: Living with Race and Racism 149
13 The Census and Making Race “Official” 158
14 Race and Education 178
15 Linking Race and Wealth: An American Dilemma 194
16 Race and Health Inequalities 213
17 Conclusion 232
Glossary 250
Index 257
