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• Preface to the Second Edition(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Some Theoretical Considerations(p. 13)
• 2 The Etymology of the Term Race" in the English Language"(p. 37)
• 3 Antecedents of the Racial Worldview(p. 42)
• 4 The Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America(p. 72)
• 5 The Arrival of Africans and Descent into Slavery(p. 90)
• 6 Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of Racial" Servitude"(p. 114)
• 7 The Rise of Science: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Classifications of Human Diversity(p. 150)
• 8 Late Eighteenth-Century Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race(p. 169)
• 9 Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview(p. 201)
• 10 A Different Order of Being: Nineteenth-Century Science and the Ideology of Race(p. 226)
• 11 Science and the Growth and Expansion of Race Ideology(p. 250)
• 12 Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology(p. 273)
• 13 Dismantling the Scientific Construction of Race: New Perspectives on Human Variation in Science(p. 292)
• 14 Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race: Transformations of an Ideology(p. 319)
• Bibliography(p. 339)
• Index(p. 359)

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CHOICE Review

Smedley argues that the concept of race in the US has become a worldview. The book's historical passages provide insights into the consolidation of an ethos that ascribes different capabilities and capacities to African Americans. Smedley offers an important and necessary comparative analysis of the concept of race in North America, which includes Canada, Mexico, and other nations north of the equator. In this book, however, North America is a code name for the US, and "American culture" refers to culture in the US alone. Native Americans are usually referred to as "Indians." The historical passages are decontextualized, e.g., the "manufacturing industry" in the Greek city-state and in the modern nation-state is not adequately differentiated. Because neither language nor concepts are used in a clear, succinct or meaningful manner, the book is not recommended. H. M. Silvert; Yeshiva University

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