In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race through three centuries of North American history, Audrey Smedley shows race to be a cultural construct used variously & opportunistically throughout time, although the scientific record shows little common agreement on its meaning. The second edition ...
In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race through three centuries of North American history, Audrey Smedley shows race to be a cultural construct used variously & opportunistically throughout time, although the scientific record shows little common agreement on its meaning. The second edition expands its coverage of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries, particularly in matters of IQ testing & changing racial attitudes.