World Famous Comics: The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity
By: Bruce Baum Publisher: NYU Press Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: NYU Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 356 Publication Date: February 27, 2006 Release Date: February 27, 2006
Product Description: The term "Caucasian" is a curious invention of the modern age. Originating in 1795, the word identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be "Caucasian". Bruce Baum explores the history of the term and the category of the "Caucasian race" more broadly in the light of the changing politics of racial theory and notions of racial identity. With a comprehensive sweep that encompasses the understanding of "race" even before the use of the term "Caucasian," Baum traces the major trends in scientific and intellectual understandings of "race" from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Baum's conclusions make an unprecedented attempt to separate modern science and politics from a long history of racial classification. He offers significant insights into our understanding of race and how the "Caucasian race" has been authoritatively invented, embraced, displaced, and recovered throughout our history.
Baum book The book is in excellent shape as promised (new). Only one problem, it took 2 weeks to arrive.
A Winner ! Bruce Baum drives the reader to a much more comprehensive understanding of modern race relations through this careful study of what it means to be caucasian. The ability to sift reality from the socially ascribed labels and preconceptions of race separates Baum from others who have attempted to address this area in the past. His work is deeply insightful and led me to a clearer understanding of my own roots and place in this world. Factual and simultaneously poetic, Baum's writing is to modern political science what Dylan was to the music scene in the 60's and 70's. I will be using this work in my Multicultural Studies program next fall and will eagerly anticipate Baum's work in the future.
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