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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521629454
ISBN-13
9780521629454
Edition
2 Revised edition
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 1998
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
406 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
Ksh 7,750.00
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This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of race and the subsequent struggles to supersede them. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to unravel the confusions in contemporary debates about racial and ethnic conflict.
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 which 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.
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