Race as a scientific and organizational construct : a critique

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Description :
Race is critically examined from the following angles : its role in the behavioural and medical sciences; its historical origins and manifestations within the Anglophone countries; and its emergence as a liberal concept and operating principle since World War II. Race is found to be a modern construct which arose as a consequence of colonialism and slavery. Efforts undertaken by liberals to humanize the concept since the 1960's has been largely unsuccessfull.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
GeoJournal, issn : 0343-2521, 1997, vol. 41, n°. 3, p. 233-243, Références bibliographiques : 33 ref.

Date :
1997

Editeur :
Pays édition : Allemagne, Heidelberg, Springer