RACE: Are We So Different?

List of Illustrations vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Regarding Race 1 Part 1 Histories of Race, Difference, and Racism 7 2 Introducing Race 9 3 Creating Race 15 4 Human Mismeasure 26 5 Inventing Whiteness 44 6 Separate and Unequal 67 Part 2 Why Human Variation Is Not Racial 91 7 Introduction: Race Human Biological Variation 93 8 Skin Deep? 101 9 Sickle Cell Disease: Not for Blacks Only 111 10 The Apportionment of Variation, or Why We Are All Africans Under the Skin 123 11 The Evolution of Variation 133 Part 3 Living with Race and Racism 145 12 Introduction: Living with Race and Racism 147 13 Race and the Census 154 14 Race and Education 174 15 Linking Race and Wealth: An American Dilemma 195 16 Race and Health Disparities 214 17 Conclusion 231 Glossary 246 Index 253