| Racial Theories Revised Edition Contributor(s): Banton, Michael P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521629454 ISBN-13: 9780521629454 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. Banton adds a new concluding chapter, "Race as Social Construct", that makes the case for a more sensitive understanding of racial and ethnic groupings. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand contemporary debates about racial and ethnic conflict. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.8 |
| LCCN: 97032115 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.95" W x 8.9" (0.93 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific conceptions of race as a form of status. In a new concluding chapter, Race as Social Construct, Michael Banton makes the case for a historically sensitive social scientific understanding of racial and ethnic groupings that operates within a more general theory of collective action and is, therefore, able to replace racial explanations as effectively as they have been replaced in biological science. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand contemporary debates about racial and ethnic conflict. This new edition is thoroughly updated and contains a new chapter on developments in recent years. |