Race: A History Beyond Black and White Contributor(s): Aronson, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689865546 ISBN-13: 9780689865541 Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2007 Annotation: Award-winning author Marc Aronson explores not only the different forms racial prejudice has taken, but the way it has manifested itself in the politics, philosophies, and beliefs of individuals and civilizations, in this ambitious and fascinating study. Photos. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Prejudice & Racism |
Dewey: 305.800 |
LCCN: 2007031912 |
Lexile Measure: 1090 |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.28" W x 9.08" (1.48 lbs) 336 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 119444 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From historian Marc Aronson comes a thought-provoking, revelatory young adult nonfiction history of the origins of racism. Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. 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? This astounding book traces the history of racial prejudice in Western culture back to ancient Sumer and beyond. Greeks divided the world into civilized and barbarian, medieval men wrote 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. 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aronson, Marc: - Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising Water and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA's first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from NYU. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com. |