Encyclopedia of race and racism /

Encyclopedia of race and racism / John Hartwell Moore, editor in chief. - Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, c2008. - 3 v. : ill., maps 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Investigates historical episodes of racism, chronicles the histories of peoples and groups that have been shaped by racist beliefs, documents how ideas of race as known emerged with the development of modern science, and portrays important promoters of these ideas. Contains almost 400 entries, arranged alphabetically and cover broad theoretical themes. Facts cited are enhanced by illustrations, cross-references and bibliography. Although favoring the United States, the st embraces a broader wide perspective and addresses the realities of race and racism, wether it is apatheid in Africa, anti-Semitism in the Arab States, the status of Australian Aborigine peoples ,Carribean racial formations, or English skinheads.

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Minorities--United States
Race relations
Racism
Racism--United States

E184.A1 / E584 2008