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Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. by John H. Moore. Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, 2008. 3 vols, alkaline $345 (ISBN 978-0-02-866020-2).
In the introduction to Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, editor John Moore explains the study of racism as having two perspectives: one from science and the other from the humanities. The scientific focuses on the racist theory debate among biologists with some proposing that "human groups, regional populations, [and] 'races' are significantly different from one another in their mental, artistic, and physical abilities" (xii) while others test the assertions and refute them. According to Moore, a substantial portion of the Encyclopedia is "devoted to examinations of particular propositions and how they have been criticized in the last three hundred years" (Ibid.). Moore goes on to state that "even if all racist assertions about human inequality are refuted, it remains to...