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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The origins and development of racism in North America are traced in a new book by St. Lawrence University Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Richard J. Perry. "'Race' and Racism: The Development of Modern Racism in America" was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book explores the diverse ways in which people in a variety of cultures have perceived, categorized and defined one another without reference to any concept of "race." In the book, Perry examines the inception and persistence of the concept of "race," and discusses the biology of human variance, addressing the fossil record of human evolution. University of Michigan Professor of Anthropology C. Loring Brace, curator of biological anthropology at the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology, says of "'Race' and Racism," "Perry clearly understands that 'race' has no scientific basis, and his treatment of racism throughout is admirable. Perry retired from St. Lawrence, in Canton, New York, in 2004, after being on the faculty since 1971. Perry has done field work on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona and co-directed the St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester program. He is the author of four other books, "Western Apache Heritage"; "Apache Reservation"; "From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems"; and "Five Key Concepts in Anthropological Thinking."
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