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Featuring essays by noted anthropologists and photos from the American Anthropological Association's "RACE: Are We So Different?" project, this book explores how the notion of race has changed throughout history, as well as contemporary experiences of race and racism in the United States; how race and racism have influenced laws, customs, and social institutions; and how current scientific understanding is often inconsistent with popular beliefs about race.

Race --- Racism --- Racisme --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Racism. --- Rassenfrage. --- Ethnische Beziehung. --- Ethnische Identität. --- Social aspects. --- United States.

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"Fully updated edition of this popular companion to AAA's RACE exhibition. Now with an international focus to encourage use as a stand-alone textbook for undergraduate and graduate students for courses on race. Explores the contemporary experience of race and racism, and the often-invisible ways race influences laws, customs, and social institutions. Includes engaging short essays by noted anthropologists to illustrate personal, historical, and scientific concepts of race. Illustrated in full colour with images from the popular US public education project and museum exhibit "RACE: Are we so different?"--

Race --- Racism --- Racism. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- United States.

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Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and where their neglect would be most damaging for the nation. The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. For instance, they deplore the push by administrations to narrow learning into quantifiable outcomes as well as the demands of state governments for more practical, usable training. Indeed, for those who suggest that a college education should be "practical"-that it should lean toward the sciences and engineering, where the high-paying jobs are-this book points out that while a few nations produce as many technicians as the United States does, America is still renowned worldwide for its innovation and creativity, skills taught most effectively in the humanities. Most importantly, the essays in this collection examine ways to make the humanities even more effective, such as offering a broader array of options than the traditional major/minor scheme, options that combine a student's professional and intellectual interests, like the new medical humanities programs. A democracy can only be as energetic as the minds of its citizens, and the questions fundamental to the humanities are also fundamental to a thoughtful life. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities-and our citizens-even stronger in the future.

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