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The introduction surveys American history by investigating the significance of “race.” The term “race” is used in this book with quotation marks because of recently discovered facts that deny the concept of “race” as a scientific categorization following the international project to analyze the human genome in 2003. Slavery, in contrast to our general perception, is not an older system handed down from ancient and medieval times but is a product of the modern ages; “race” remains in present-day U.S. society as a social construction. A brief overview of each chapter is then given.
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Kawashima, M. (2017). Introduction: The Invention of “Race” in the Modern World System. In: American History, Race and the Struggle for Equality. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1977-7_1
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