Race: Science and Politics

by Ruth Benedict

Book Overview

In science, race can be a useful concept--for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or any belief system, then danger follows. That is the focus of this classic repudiation of racism, which is as readable and timely now as when it first appeared.

Race: Science and Politics was first published in 1940, in response to the global rise of fascism and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820356786
• ISBN13: 9780820356785
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"