The Meaning of Race: Race, History, and Culture in Western Society

by Kenan Malik

Book Overview

Argues that the social meaning of race emerges from a contradiction between the ideology of equality and the reality of inequality

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their race. And yet, people are continually categorized according to their race--Afro- Caribbean, white, Jewish--though we often have difficulty in defining just...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814755534
• ISBN13: 9780814755532
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"