In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race for more than three centuries, Audrey Smedley shows that “race” is a cultural invention that began to appear around the turn of the eightee
Studying the Birom people of the Jos plateau of Nigeria, social anthropologist Smedley questions the idea that all patrilineal societies are patriarchal and thus uniformly oppressive to women. Althoug
In Race in North America, Audrey Smedley shows that “race” is a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Race, in its origin, was not a produ
