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Race: a History Beyond Black and White
de Aronson, Marc
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0689865546
- ISBN 13
- 9780689865541
- Librería
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Atheneum Books for Young Readers. As New. 2007. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. No defects, book is As New. Gift quality. . Goes way beyond the usual connotation of race, considering slaves and Hebrews, Greeks and Jews, Holy wars, American slaves, whites and Indians, Germans and Jews, and on and on it goes. Intended for older children, it is certainly suitable for adults as well. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 336 pages. Signed by Author. B5 .
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Sweet Beagle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 31676
- Título
- Race: a History Beyond Black and White
- Autor
- Aronson, Marc
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Edición
- 1st Edition. 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0689865546
- ISBN 13
- 9780689865541
- Editorial
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Lugar de publicación
- Usa
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Palabras clave
- History Of Racial Divides, Children's Book
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