Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, Paperback/Audrey Smedley

A sweeping work examining the evolution of "race" in the past three centuries as a cultural invention rationalizing inequality among the peoples of North America About the Author: Audrey Smedley is professor emerita of anthropology and African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of several books as well as the American Anthropology Association's position paper on race. Brian D. Smedley holds a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA. He is vice president and director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank in Washington, D.C.