Race In North America

Audrey Smedley is professor emerita of anthropology and African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Etymology of the Term "Race"; Antecedents of the Racial Worldview; Growth of the English Ideology; The Arrival of Africans and their Decline into Slavery; Comparing Slave Systems-, The Rise of Science: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Classifications of Human Diversity; Late Eighteenth-Century Thought and Crystallization of the Ideology of Race; Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview; A Different Order of Being: Nineteenth-Century Science and the Ideology of Race; Science and the Interchange of Race Ideology Between Europe and America; Dismantling the Cultural Construction of Race: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Science; New Perspectives on Human Variation and Some Tentative Conclusions.