Research Catalog

Title

Racism, not race : answers to frequently asked questions / Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman.

Author

Graves, Joseph L., 1955-

Publication

• New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Goodman, Alan H.

Description

xxiii, 290 pages : illustrations, charts; 25 cm

Summary

"We talk a lot about race, yet we rarely focus on the underlying question of what race is and its connections to racism. Conversations about race can be uncomfortable and confusing, but this is resolvable if we ask the right questions and focus on clear answers. What, exactly, is race? Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman illuminate the idea of race so that people who want to confront the topic of racial injustice can do so with the necessary conceptual tools. Most people think race is real, they argue, and it is. But race is not real in the way that most of us have grown up to think of it. Race is not natural, fixed, or based on biology. Instead, they continue, racism created the idea of race, the idea of race has real effects, and while human genetic variation is biologically real, it is not race. The book is based on evidence from biological and social science. It is composed of twelve question-begging chapters, which engage topics such as the origins of race, race and genetics, the forms of racism, race and health, race and ability, institutional racism, DNA and ancestry testing, "race mixing," race and politics, and what it means to be an antiracist. The book is ideally suited for people want to understand more about what race is, where it came from, and how to confront its pernicious effects, in a format that is clear, direct, and can be used as a model to defend one's antiracist position"--

Subject

• Racism
• Race
• African Americans > History and criticism
• Race > Social aspects > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-277) and index.

Contents

Introduction: What Are Race, Racism, and Human Variation? -- How Did Race Become Biological? -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Genetics and Race -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Racism -- Why Do Races Differ in Disease Incidence? -- Life History, Aging, and Mortality -- Athletics, Bodies, and Abilities -- Intelligence, Brains, and Behaviors -- Driving While Black and Other Deadly Realities of Institutional and Systemic Racism -- DNA and Ancestry Testing -- Race Names and "Race Mixing" -- A World Without Racism? -- Conclusions.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1167

ISBN

• 9780231200660
• 0231200668

LCCN

2021014721

OCLC

1248601257

Author

Graves, Joseph L., 1955- author.

Title

Racism, not race : answers to frequently asked questions / Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-277) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Goodman, Alan H., author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1167