Race: A History Beyond Black and White - Aronson, Marc

Clean, tight, unmarked; very light wear to edges of dust jacket; a few very light ink marks inside front cover; otherwise very minimal wear; Acclaimed young adult historian Marc Aronson tackles questions which trace 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 anew one: charts spelling out the traits of human races. Once the idea of race 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 100 images, this is a dynamic, thought-provoking work - history as quest.
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Hardcover
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
1st Edition
1st Printing
2007
New York, NY