Race in a Godless World : Atheism, Race and Civilization 1850-1914.
By: Alexander, Nathan G.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 2019Description: ix, 290p ; illus. ; hbk.ISBN: 9781479835003.Subject(s): Race-Philosophy | Secularism | Christianity | Atheism | Race-Religious aspectsDDC classification: 305.8009Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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305.8 THE Theories of race and racism. | 305.8001 COF Doing Ethnography. | 305.8001 FET Ethnography : step-by-step / | 305.8009 ALE Race in a Godless World : Atheism, Race and Civilization 1850-1914. | 305.8009415 MCL Travellers and Ireland: whose history whose country. | 305.8009415 MCL Travellers and Ireland: whose history whose country. | 305.8009416 DIV Diversity on display: an exhibition on the lives and culture of Northern Ireland's ethnic minorities. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the tangled histories of Christianity, secularization, and race1 Were Adam and Eve our first parents? Atheism and polygenesis2 Brute men: race and society in evolution3 A London Zulu: savagery and civilisation4 The wise men of the east: India, China, and Japan5 The best friends the negro ever had: African Americans and white atheists6 The curse of race prejudice: rethinking race at the turn of the centuryEpilogue: what next for racism in a godless world?NotesBibliographyIndex -- .
This is the first historical analysis of the racial views of atheists and freethinkers. Focusing on Britain and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, it covers racial and evolutionary science, imperialism, slavery and segregation in the United States, immigration debates and racial prejudice in theory and practice.