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Race: A History Beyond Black and White (Hardcover)
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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
barbarian, medieval men writing about the traits of monstrous men,
until, finally, Enlightenment scientists scrap all those
mythologies and come up with a new one: charts spelling out the
traits of human races.
Aronson's journey of discovery yields many surprising discoveries.
For instance, throughout most of human history, slavery had nothing
to do with race. In fact, the idea of race itself did not exist in
the West before the 1600s. But once the idea was established and
backed up by "scientific" theory, its influence grew with
devastating consequences, from the appalling lynchings in the
American South to the catastrophe known as the Holocaust in Europe.
With one hundred images, this is a dynamic, thought-provoking
work-history as quest, written as only Marc Aronson could do it.
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