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Subject(s)

• Racism—United States—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• United States—Ethnic relations—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Minorities—United States—Social conditions—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Race relations—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Racism—Encyclopedias [Browse]

Editor

• Mason, Patrick L. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Encyclopedias [Browse]

Summary note

Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• v. 1. Abolition Movement
• Admixture
• Affirmative Action
• Africa
• Africa: Belgian Colonies
• Africa: British Colonies
• Africa: French Colonies
• Africa: German Colonies
• Africa: Italian Colonies
• Africa: Portuguese Colonies
• African Blood Brotherhood
• African Diaspora
• African Economic Development
• African Enslavement, Precolonial
• African Liberation Support Committee
• Afrocentrism
• Afro-Syncretic Religions
• Alien Land Laws
• Allen, Richard 1760-1831
• Ambedkar, B. R. 1891-1956
• American Anti-Slavery Society
• American Colonization Society and the Founding of Liberia
• American Friends Service Committee
• American Indian Boarding Schools
• American Indian Movement (AIM)
• American Indians
• American Negro Academy
• Ancestry
• Antebellum Black Ethnology
• Anthropology, History of
• Anthropometry
• Anti-Apartheid Movement
• Anti-Defamation League
• Anti-Indian Movement
• Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism: Overview
• Anti-Semitism: Arab World
• Anti-Semitism: Modern Europe
• Anti-Semitism: United States
• Apartheid
• Arab Americans
• Aryans
• Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
• Atlantic Creoles and Vernacular English
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Australian Aborigine Peoples
• Aztlán
• Baartman, Saartje c. 1790-1815
• Baker, Ella 1903-1986
• Baldwin, James 1924-1987
• Bandung Conference, 1955
• Barrio
• Bates, Daisy 1912-1999
• Beauty Standards
• Belgian Congo
• Bell Curve, the
• Berlin Conference of 1884-1885
• Bigotry
• Biko, Stephen Bantu 1946-1977
• Biological Determinism
• Biracialism
• Birmingham School of Cultural Studies
• Birth of a Nation, the
• Black Arts Movement
• Black Codes
• Black Consciousness
• Black Immigration
• Black Indians
• Black Nationalism
• Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
• Black Popular Culture (US)
• Black Power
• Blackness in Latin America
• Black-White Intermarriage
• Blood Purity Laws
• Blood Quantum
• Boas, Franz 1858-1942
• Bolívar, Simón 1783-1830
• Bollywood
• Borders
• Braceros, Repatriation, and Seasonal Workers
• Brown, John 1800-1859
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Buddhists and Buddhism
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Bunche, Ralph 1903-1971
• Burakumin
• Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850
• Cancer (Breast)
• Capitalism
• Caribbean Immigration
• Caste and Casteism
• Césaire, Aimé 1913-2008
• Chamberlain, Houston Stewart 1855-1927
• Chicago School, the
• Chicano Movement
• Children, Status Disparities of
• Chinese Diaspora
• Chinese Immigration and Exclusion (US), Nineteenth Century
• Chisholm, Shirley 1924-2005
• Christian Identity
• Christians and Christianity
• Citizenship
• Civil Rights Acts
• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil War Politics
• Clarkson, Thomas 1760-1846
• Colorism
• Condorcet, Marquis de 1743-1794
• Confucianism
• Contact Hypothesis
• Coon Carnival
• Cox, Oliver 1901-1974
• Creation Narratives
• Creole Languages
• Crime and American Indians
• Criminal Justice System (US)
• Criminality and Social Factors
• Critical Race Theory
• Crusades
• Cuffe, Paul 1759-1817
• Cultural Deficiency
• Cultural Determinism
• Cultural Resistance
• Culture.
• v. 2. Dalits
• Dance
• Darwin, Charles Robert 1809-1882
• Davis, Angela 1944-
• Dawes Act
• Day Laborers, Latino
• Deme
• Demographics and Race
• Demographics (Racial) in the Western Hemisphere
• Desegregation (US)
• Discordance, Principle of
• Discrimination: Constitutional Provisions, Legislation, and Jurisprudence
• Discrimination, Measurement of
• Diseases
• Doll Studies
• Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963
• Economic Growth
• Education, Discrimination in Higher
• Education, Diversity in Higher
• Educational Disparities
• El Mestizaje
• El Plan de Santa Barbara
• Emancipation
• Enlightenment
• Essentialism
• Ethiopia, Invasion of
• Ethnicity
• Ethnocentrism
• Ethnological Exhibitions
• Eugenics
• European Middle Ages
• Exotic Lady Continents
• Exploitation
• Eysenck, Hans Jurgen 1916-1997
• Families
• Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961
• Fascism
• Federal Recognition: What Is an Indian?
• Felony Disenfranchisement
• Feminism
• Firmin, Anténor 1850-1911
• Fisk Jubilee Singers
• Forensic Anthropology
• Forten, James 1766-1842
• Fourth World
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Frelimo
• Galton, Francis 1822-1911
• Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 1869-1948
• Garnet, Henry Highland 1815-1882
• Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879
• Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• Genocide: Overview
• Crimes Against Humanity: Overview
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Armenia
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Assyrian Massacre
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Balkans
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Cambodia
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Haitian Massacre of 1937
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Japanese Occupation
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Mayan Genocide in Guatemala
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Rwanda
• Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Sudan
• Gilroy, Paul 1956-
• Global Environment Movement
• Great Chain of Being
• Guevara, Che 1928-1967
• Haitian Revolution
• Hamer, Fannie Lou 1917-1977
• Hate Crimes
• Hate Speech (US)
• Health Care Gap
• Health Disparities
• Heritability
• Hindus and Hinduism
• Hip-Hop Culture and Rap Music
• Historical Trauma
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945
• HIV and AIDS
• Hollywood, Racial Depictions in
• Holocaust
• Holocaust Denial
• Human Biological Variation
• Human Evolution and Genetics
• Human Genome Project
• Human Trafficking
• Immigration Reform (US)
• Immigration Regulation
• Imperialism
• Imperialism: Overview
• Imperialism: Africa
• Imperialism: Asia
• Imperialism: Middle East
• Indian Rights Association
• Indian Slavery
• Indians, American and Asian
• Indigenous
• Inequality
• Inequality: Overview
• Inequality: Brazil
• Inequality: China
• Inequality: India
• Inequality: Japan
• Inequality: Mexico
• Infant Mortality and Birth Weight
• Integration
• Intelligence Project
• Internal Colony
• Intersectionality
• IQ and Testing: Critiques
• Islamophobia.
• v. 3. Janvier, Louis-Joseph 1855-1911
• Japanese American Internment and Relocation
• Jensen, Arthur 1923-
• Jewish Defense League
• Jews and Judaism
• Jim Crow
• Kahane, Meir 1932-1990
• Kennewick Man
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-1968
• Ku Klux Klan
• La Malinche
• La Raza
• Labor Market
• Language
• Latina Gender and Reproduction
• Latino Social Movements
• Latinos
• League of Revolutionary Black Workers
• Lewis, W. Arthur 1915-1991
• Life Expectancy
• Linguistics
• Linked Fate
• Lumumba, Patrice 1925-1961
• Machismo
• Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
• Malaria, Genetic Adaptation to
• Malcolm X 1925-1965
• Mandela, Nelson 1918-
• Maoism
• Mardi Gras Indians
• Market Competition
• Marshall, Thurgood 1908-1993
• Marxism
• Medical Experimentation
• Mental Health Disparities
• Mexicans
• Middle East: Minorities
• Missionaries
• Model Minorities
• Mormonism
• Motherhood
• Mulatto Escape Hatch
• Multiculturalism
• Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI)
• Muslims and Islam
• NAACP
• NAACP: Legal Actions, 1935-1955
• National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC)
• National Negro Convention Movement
• National Socialism
• National Urban League (US)
• Nationalism and Ethnicity
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Overview
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Definition and History
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Cultural Nationalism
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Africa
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Asia
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Europe
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Latin America
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Middle East
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: North America
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Pan-Arabism
• Nationalism and Ethnicity: Zionism and Israel
• Native American Popular Culture
• Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
• Nativism
• Negritude and Negrismo
• Neoliberalism
• New Abolitionist Movement
• New Negro, the
• Nkrumah, Kwame 1909-1972
• Nyerere, Julius 1922-1999
• Obama, Barack Hussein 1961-
• Occupational Crowding
• Olympic Games
• Operation Gatekeeper
• Operation Wetback
• Organisation Armée Secrète (Secret Army Organization)
• Orientalism
• "Out of Africa" Hypothesis
• Palestinian Nakba
• Pan-Africanism
• Passing
• The Passing of the Great Race
• Pathology, Dysfunction, and Inequality
• Pay Equity
• Performance
• Periyar, E. V. Ramasamy Naicker 1879-1973
• Phule, Jotiba 1827-1890
• Pioneer Fund
• "Playing Indian"
• Plessy V. Ferguson
• Polygenism
• Population Genetics
• Porres, Martin de, St. 1579-1639
• Post-Structuralism
• Poverty
• Prejudice
• Prison-Industrial Complex
• Puerto Ricans, Identity and Self-Determination of
• Race Riots
• Racial Formations
• Racial Formations: Brazil
• Racial Formations: Canada
• Racial Formations: Central America
• Racial Formations: Cuba
• Racial Formations: The Dominican Republic
• Racial Formations: Haiti
• Racial Formations: Latin America
• Racial Formations: South Africa
• Racial Hierarchy
• Racial Profiling and Biased Policing
• Racial Purity (US), 1900-1910
• Racism
• Racism: Overview
• Racism: Alternative Expressions
• Racism: Aversive
• Racism: Color-Blind
• Racism: Cultural
• Racism: Institutional
• Racism: Medical
• Racism: Scientific
• Symbolic and Modern Racism
• Ramabai, Pandita 1858-1922
• Rape
• Rassenhygiene
• Rastafarianism
• Reconstruction
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Reformation and Renaissance
• Reparations
• Reproductive Rights
• Reservation System
• Rodney, Walter 1942-1980
• Roma.
• v. 4. Schœlcher, Victor 1804-1893
• Scholarship: Social Sciences
• Scottsboro Boys
• Secession
• Segregation, Index of Dissimilarity
• Segregation, Residential
• Sex Work
• Sexuality, Biological Basis of
• Sexuality, Racialized
• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Skin Color
• Slave Labor in the Americas
• Slavery
• Smith, James McCune 1813-1865
• Social Class and Mortality
• Social Democracy
• Social Justice
• Social Psychology of Racism
• Social Welfare States
• Socialization
• Soldiers of Color
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Sovereignty and American Indian Communities
• Sports
• Sports: Overview
• Sports: Asian Martial Arts
• Sports: Basketball
• Sports: Cricket
• Sports: Football (International)
• Sports: Football (US)
• Sports: Track and Field
• Standardized Tests
• Stereotype
• Stereotype Threat
• Stigma
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896
• Stratification Economics
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Subspecies
• Sweatshops
• Tay-Sachs Disease
• Television
• Texas Rangers
• Theories of Athletic Performance
• Theories of Athletic Performance: Overview
• Theories of Athletic Performance: Baseball
• Theories of Athletic Performance: Boxing
• "Third World," Transnational, and Global Feminisms
• Tillman, Benjamin "Pitchfork" 1847-1918
• Tokenism
• Toussaint Louverture c. 1743-1803
• Truth, Sojourner c. 1797-1883
• Turner, Henry Mcneal 1834-1915
• Turner, Nat 1800-1831
• Undocumented Workers
• Unemployment and Underemployment
• UNESCO Statements on Race
• United Farm Workers Union
• United States Constitution
• Vesey, Denmark c. 1767-1822
• Violence, Racial
• Violence Against Indigenous People, Latin America
• Visual Arts
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Walker, David c. 1796-1830
• Washington, Booker T. 1856-1915
• Wealth
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862-1931
• White Racial Identity
• White Settler Societies
• White Supremacy
• Whiteness and White Privilege
• Williams, Eric 1911-1981
• Willie Lynch Letter
• Winfrey, Oprah 1954-
• World Conference Against Racism
• Zapatista Rebellion
• Zoot Suit Riots
• Appendices
• Annotated Bibliography
• Annotated Filmography
• List of Primary Sources.

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ISBN

• 9780028661957 (electronic book)
• 0028661958 (electronic book)

OCLC

825005867

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