What is "Race"?

Hannah W.

This factsheet examines the evolution of the concept of race. It provides a timeline of race as an idea based on Michael Banton's book What we Know about Race and Ethnicity

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References

Banton, Michael. "The Scientific Sources of the Paradox." In What we Now Know About Race and Ethnicity, 11-30. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.

Source Authors

Michael Banton

Keywords

anthropology, categories, categorization, Constructing 'Race', genetic, genetic difference, hierarchy, inheritance, oppression, phenotype, race, racism, science, selection, taxonomy, the Bible

Key Figures

Carl Linnaeus, George Cuvier, Samuel Morton, Josiah Nott, Gobineau, Charles Lamb, Gregor Mendel

Locations

The West

Themes

anthropology, categorization, hierarchy, History, oppression, racism, science, taxonomy, Theory