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This book aims to expose students to some of the diverse perspectives in the study of race and ethnic relations. Like scholars in other fields of inquiry, those who study race relations often disagree on many major issues. In the 1950s, a UNESCO consortium of biologists, geneticists, and physical anthropologists issued a statement rejecting the usefulness of race as a biological concept. In discussions of race and racial identity, much has been written about blacks, Asians, and Native Americans. Bob Blauner addresses the issues of race and ethnicity and asserts that black Americans are both a racial group and an ethnic group. Social scientists concerned with ethnicity direct most of their attention to different groups of whites in the United States either in terms of nationality. In addition to these disagreements about basic concepts, social scientists tend to have different theoretical perspectives about the study of race and ethnic relations. |
