What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

by Michael Banton

Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to “race,” “racism,” and “ethnicity” in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.

178 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2015

About the author

Michael Banton (born 1926) is a British social scientist known primarily for his publications on racial and ethnic relations. He was also the first editor of Sociology (1967-1970).

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Who is "we"?

Who cares! The editor seems to be paid by the book so the mill is working. Dry. Scholastic. A waste of time about what Baton and his gang knows about race and ethnicity.