Mental Health, Race and Culture
Subtitle: Third Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 24, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780230212701
Subjects: Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Social Work; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups -- African-American Studies; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups -- Ethnic Studies
First sentence: The term 'race' entered the English language in the sixteenth century at a time when the Bible was accepted as the authority on human affairs, and was used originally in the sense of lineage, supposedly ordained at the creation of the world (Banton, 1987).