How real is race?
Subtitle: a sourcebook on race, culture, and biology
By: Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, Yolanda T. Moses
Contributors: Henze, Rosemary C; Moses, Yolanda T
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781578865604; 9781578865611
Subjects: Race; Race relations; Culture; Sociobiology; Nature and nurture; Education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by James A. Banks; title: Introduction; title: The fallacy of race as biology / primary authors: Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Yolanda T. Moses. Why contemporary races are not scientifically valid ; Human biological variation: what we don't see ; If not race, how do we explain biological differences? ; More alike than different, more different than alike; title: Culture creates race / primary author: Carol C. Mukhopadhyay. Culture shapes how we experience reality ; Culture and classification: race is culturally real ; Race and inequality: race as a social invention to achieve certain goals ; Cross-cultural overview of race ; If race doesn't exist, what are we seeing? Sex, mating, and race; title: Race and hot-button issues in schools / primary author: Rosemary Henze. Assemblies, clubs, slurs, and racial labels ; The academic achievement gap and equity ; Racial and racialized conflicts ; Interracial flirting and dating in schools; title: Resources