How Real Is Race? : A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology

by Mukhopadhyay, Carol Chapnick; Henze, Rosemary; Moses, Yolanda T.

• ISBN13: 9781578865604
• ISBN10: 1578865603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

How Real is Race? brings together biological and cultural information to help people make sense of the contradictory messages about race in the U.S. and elsewhere. How real is race? Or rather, in what sense is race real? What is biological fact and fiction? Where does culture enter? And what does it really mean to say that race is a social construction? If race is an invention, who invented it? Why? For what ends? And can we eliminate it if we wish to? These are the key questions that frame this book. With accessible, clear language and suggested teaching activities in every chapter, it is designed as a sourcebook for anyone interested in addressing the quest

Author Biography

Carol C. Mukhopadhyay is a key advisor for the American Anthropological Association's public information project Yolanda T. Moses is an anthropologist and university administrator who has spent more than 25 years researching, writing, and teaching in the United States, the Caribbean, South Africa, and Brazil

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
The Fallacy of Race as Biology	p. 1
Introduction to Part 1	p. 1
Why Contemporary Races Are Not Scientifically Valid	p. 5
Human Biological Variation: What We Don't See	p. 21
If Not Race, How Do We Explain Biological Differences?	p. 39
More Alike Than Different, More Different Than Alike	p. 61
Culture Creates Race	p. 81
Introduction to Part 2	p. 81
Culture Shapes How We Experience Reality	p. 85
Culture and Classification: Race Is Culturally Real	p. 99
Race and Inequality: Race as a Social Invention to Achieve Certain Goals	p. 119
Cross-Cultural Overview of Race	p. 145
If Race Doesn't Exist, What Are We Seeing? Sex, Mating, and Race	p. 161
Race and Hot-Button Issues in Schools	p. 181
Introduction to Part 3	p. 181
Assemblies, Clubs, Slurs, and Racial Labels	p. 183
The Academic Achievement Gap and Equity	p. 201
Racial and Racialized Conflicts	p. 219
Interracial Flirting and Dating in Schools	p. 235
Resources	p. 243
References	p. 253
Alignment with Standards	p. 260
List of Teaching Activities	p. 269
Illustrations List	p. 273
Index	p. 275
About the Authors	p. 285
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