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This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that race" is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text includes a compelling new chapter on the health impacts of the racial worldview, as well as a thoroughly rewritten chapter that explores the election of Barack Obama and its implications for the meaning of race in America and the future of our racial ideology.

Audrey Smedley is professor emerita of anthropology and African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of several books as well as the American Anthropology Association's position paper on race.Brian D. Smedley holds a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA. He is vice president and director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint centre for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank in Washington, D.C.