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THE DEVELOPMENT OF RACISM Although beliefs in the superiority and inferiority of different groups have been his- torically persistent in human societies (recall the universality of […]

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 19 nature of these differences are accepted uncritically by many. The belief in the innate behavioral differences between men and women has been […]

THE IDEOLOGY OF RACISM _.\s a belief system, or ideology, racism is structured around three basic ideas: • Humans are divided naturally into different physical types. […]

RACE AND ETHNICITY: A SYNTHESIS As should now be obvious, the term race is so charged and misconceived that it is very difficult to employ in […]

THE ARBITRARY BouNDARIES oF RACE Each heterogeneous society takes whatever are per- ceived as important physical differences among people and builds a set of racial cat- […]

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE Many popular ideas are of dubious scientific validity; race is certainly among these. But as Andre Beteille has pointed out, “Sociological […]

THE BASES OF RACIAL CLASSIFICATION That a person from one genetic population can inter- breed with a person from any other population creates a second difficulty […]

CH APT ER I INTRODUCTION 9 Although this point may seem like a relatively minor theoretical one, it is of im- portance when ethnic groups in […]

C HARACTERISTICS OF ETHNIC GROUPS U:-;IQUE C ULTURAL TRAJTS Basically, ethnic groups are groups within a larger society that display a unique set of cultural traits. […]