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<p>Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino.</p> <p>Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things.</p> <p>We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought.</p> <p>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?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 establishe

Who reads Race : a History Beyond Black and White?

Author

Aronson, Marc

Publisher

New York: Ginee seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780689865541

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.54 / 5 (153 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14