The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally

"A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South which makes truly new and convincing points about one of the most critical problems in US histo

Illuminates the emergence of race as a central concept in philosophy and the social sciences.

This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally

In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the mod

One of the most startlingly original and provocatively radical scholars currently engaged in the study of culture and the concept of race.

Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate

This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature.