Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective [Paperback]

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspectiveis a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and is divided into three sections, beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world. The term race has nearly become synonymous with the word ethnicity, given the most recent findings in the study of human genetics that have led to the mapping of human DNA.Color Struckattempts to answer questions and provide scholarly insight into issues related to race and ethnicity.

Julius O. Adekunleis a professor of African history at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is the author ofCulture and Customs of Rwanda(2007) and the editor ofReligion in Politics: Secularism and National Integration in Modern Nigeria(2009).
Hettie V. Williamsteaches United States history, world history, western civilization, and upper division courses on the history of African Americans at Monmouth University. She is the author ofWe Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Revolt (1962-1968)(University Press of America, 2008).

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspectiveis an essential and welcome contribution to the fields of global studies, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It is very relevant to ongoing debates, dialogues, and discourses about identity and the centrality of race in all these discussions. While some of the essays deploy theoretical (and technical) terminologies, the whole work is quite comprehensible - especially for the uninitiated reader curious about the power of race in our modern consciousness. 'BioDun J. Ogundayo

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
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