Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture

Download or read book Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture written by Guido Bolaffi and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, ethnicity and culture are concepts that are interpreted in various and often contradictory ways. This Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture provides the historical background and etymology of a wide number of words related to these concepts, looking at discourses of race, ethnicity and culture from a broadly multicultural perspective. This new and up-to-date dictionary contains numerous references to both European and American concepts, debates and terms. Contributors to the dictionary include well-known anthropologists, biologists, lawyers, philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, enabling the Dictionary to bring an interdisciplinary approach to the subject matter, and a rich variety of voice and content that would otherwise