Race in North America: Origins and Evolution of a Worldview
In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race for more than three centuries, Audrey Smedley shows that "race” is a cultural invention that began to appear around the turn of the eighteenth century. In its origin, race was not a product of science but a folk ideology reflecting a new form of social stratification and a rationalization for inequality among the peoples of North America. This third edition incorporates recently published new source materials on the history of race ideology....
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A sweeping work that traces the idea of race for more than three centuries and shows that “race” is a cultural invention that began to appear around the turn of the eighteenth century.
Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Some Theoretical Considerations132The Etymology of the Term "Race" in the English Language373Antecedents of the Racial Worldview424The Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America725The Arrival of Africans and Descent into Slavery906Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude1147The Rise of Science: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Classifications of Human Diversity1508Late Eighteenth-Century Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race1699Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview20110A Different Order of Being: Nineteenth-Century Science and the Ideology of Race22611Science and the Growth and Expansion of Race Ideology25012Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology27313Dismantling the Scientific Construction of Race: New Perspectives on Human Variation in Science29214Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race: Transformations of an Ideology319Bibliography339Index359
