Book Review of Race in North America Origin and Evolution of a Worldview written by Audrey Smedley

According to Audrey Smedley, in Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, race is “a set of beliefs and attitudes about human differences, not the differences themselves.” However, most humans have been conditioned to believe that “race” has basically everything to do with biological and genetic differences among human populations that are visible and obvious. Now, “race” is being viewed as a social or cultural invention.

Smedley believes there is evidence that asserts that “race” appeared as a new ideology about human differences in the 18th century. Since this era, the ideology have been used as a device to stratify society and to grant privileges, benefits and rights to some and not to others. Therefore, the arguments of inherited differences and their unchangeability have been critical to constructing and preserving race ideology from the beginning. These beliefs have been associated with such natural features as skin color and other physical appearances. This is why the conditioning to the belief has been so powerful and so difficult to abolish. So, we as humans think we see race when w

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