Race A History Beyond Black and White

Name: Race A History Beyond Black and White
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ISBN: 9780689865541

ISBN-10: 0689865546

ISBN-13: 9780689865541

Edition: 2007

Authors: Marc Aronson

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Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. Why? Where did those feelings come from? Why are they so powerful? Why have millions been enslaved, murdered, denied their rights because of the color of their skin, the shape of their eyes? Acclaimed young-adult historian Marc Aronson tackles these and other questions in this astounding book, which traces the history of racial prejudice in Western culture back to ancient Sumer and beyond. He shows us Greeks dividing the world into civilized and…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note to the Reader


Introduction: Race


Where Do Prejudices Come From? The Mind


Where Do Prejudices Come From? The Tribe


Where Do Prejudices Come From? City Walls



Before Race: The Ancient World



Slaves, Hebrews, God



Greek and Barbarian



Greeks and Jews


Rome: The Tolerant Empire



The Road to Race: The Christian Era



The Savage World


Holy War



Know Your Enemy



Know Your Enemy II


Spain



Inventing Race: New Worlds, New Peoples



American Subhumans


African Slaves



New Worlds, New Ideas


Protestantism, Freedom, and Prejudice


Ireland


Savage Romans, Freedom-Loving Tribes



Race: The Beautiful Skull



"Viva la Liberta!"


The Four Pillars and Five Peoples



The Age of Racism Two Crises: In America: Who Is White? In Europe: What Is a Jew?



Science and Prejudice


America: Black-Slave


White


White = Not Red



Sea Change: Race in Europe and America


White = Not Irish


Irish = Not Black


German = Not Jewish


English = Not Hindu


All Men Are Created Unequal



The Dark Road


White = Not Chinese


Winners Win


Drawing Racial Lines with Blood


Birth of a Man, and of a Nation



Survival of the Fittest


Beautiful Birth


A Nation of Winners



Motion


Are Italians White?


"The White People Are Going to Rule the Country"



Extermination: Africa


Mein Kampf


The Holocaust



Judgment: Race and Racism After the Holocaust



Child of God


Self-Respect



Freedom



"May Be of Any Race": Race and Racism Today



Roots



"Black Is a Way of Acting": Race Today


"In Every Age"


Photo and Illustration Credits


List of Bibliographical Abbreviations in the Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index