This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

In The German Invention of Race, historians, philosophers, and scholars in literary, cultural, and religious studies trace the origins of the concept of "race"

This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally

A New York Times Bestseller This terrific new book…[explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive." —Boston Globe Telling

An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era. Though