Boule * gives the maximum size for the latter as 621 cubic centimeters; whereas for Negroes he gives 1477 c.c. and for Parisians 1550 c.c. Pearson's series of European males, on the other hand, averages 1490 c.c.—almost the average ...
Blending metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience, this text outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, engaging with the ideas of the leading figures in the field.
The second edition of the bestselling title on modern notions of race, providing timely examination of perspectives on race, racism, and human biological variation In this fully updated second edition of this popular text on the study of ...
Mallach, A. 2010 Facing the Urban Challenge: The Federal Government and America's Older Distressed Cities. Washington, DC: What Workscollaborative. Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton 1993 American Apartheid: Segregation and the ...
In Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970),10 Pecola, a poor black child, believes that possessing blue eyes would give her white privilege and enhance her life. She would literally see the world differently through blue eyes.
J. Kameron Carter argues that black theology's intellectual impoverishment in the Church and the academy is the result of its theologically shaky presuppositions, which are based largely on liberal Protestant convictions, and he critiques ...
Edwards' ethnography of a northern English town also shows that people shift ambiguously between things that are said to be 'born' in people and those that are 'bred' into them by upbringing (Edwards 2000). (Indeed, in English the very ...
However, Herrnstein and Murray linked their social critique to an essentialist notion of race that exposes the rather troubling tenuousness of their conclusions, as well as their potentially insidious political disposition.
A staunch friend and advocate of Negroes was Thomas Wentworth Higginson. During the Civil War, he commanded a Negro regiment of the Union army and wrote a most informative and revealing account of his experiences.
Featuring a new afterword by the author, an introduction by series editors Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Arnold Rampersad, and a bibliographic essay by Maghan Keita, this indispensable book, whose first edition helped change the way scholars ...
Arguing that race is a biologically significant difference, the authors challenge the weight of academic opinion on the subject and suggest honesty rather than fear-mongering in light of growing evidence that the various races are ...
Yirmiyahu Yovel (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1989). 90. KRRT, 129–30; AA VI.94. 91. Much of what follows is indebted to Mack's important analysis. 92. Mack, German Idealism and the Jew, 28. 93. Ibid. 94. Ibid. 95.
An explosive new drama from one of our most acclaimed playwrights.
Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world.
... BARBAULD TO BAILLIE, 1790–1830 Jane Stabler MILTON TO POPE, 1650–1720 Kay Gilliland Stevenson SIDNEY TO MILTON, 1580–1660 Marion Wynne Davies Forthcoming Titles TERRY EAGLETON David Alderson JULIA KRISTEVA AND LITERARY THEORY Megan ...
These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the present.
Dotted with ghosts, sex scenes and ramblings in New Orleans and abroad, the story can be thrilling... an endless string of docile servants round out this astutely delicate dramatization of race relations.
Gennem interviews undersøger forfatteren amerikanernes holdninger til raceproblemet
But he also finds the first traces of modern ideas of race and the protoscences of late medieval cabalism and hermeticism.
Perspectives on race today Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists and illustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We So Different? is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea of race, demonstrating how current ...