Race: An Introduction

Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part II outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world. Examining how humans have used ideas of physical appearance, heredity and behaviour as criteria for categorising others, the text guides students through provocative questions such as: what is race? Does studying race reinforce racism? Does a colour-blind approach dismantle, or merely mask, racism? How does biology feed into concepts of race? Numerous case studies, photos, figures and tables help students to appreciate the different meanings of race in varied contexts, and end-of-chapter research tasks provide further support for student learning.

• Race: Are We So Different?
• The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium (Biological Theories of Race at the Millenium)
• Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
• Race in the 21st Century: Ethnographic Approaches
• The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium
• Precarious Japan
• Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
• The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Regarding the Pain of Others
• Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes