Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

by Michael Yudell

Book Overview

Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience.

Race Unmasked revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231168748
• ISBN13: 9780231168748
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"