Race And Racism

This study examines the origins and development of racism in North America through addressing the inception and persistence of the concept of "race" and the biology of human variance.

Richard J. Perry earned a B.A. in anthropology at Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at Syracuse University. He has done field work on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona and spent a year and half in Kenya with his wife, Professor Alice Pomponio, co-directing the St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program. He is the author of four other books, titled Western Apache Heritage, Apache Reservation, From Time Immemorial, and Five Key Concepts in Anthropological Thinking. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at St. Lawrence University, where he taught from 1971 to 2004 and was founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology, serving as chair for sixteen years.