Race: The Reality of Human Difference
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Race: The Reality of Human Differences (Hardcover: ISBN 0-8133-4086-1, Paperback: ISBN 0-8133-4322-4) is a popularized sociology book, in which authors Vincent M. Sarich (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley) and Frank Miele (senior editor of SKEPTIC MAGAZINE) argue for the reality of race.
It was published by Westview Press in 2004, a year after PBS released its documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion. Sarich and Miele's book may be read as a response to the points made by the PBS documentary.
[edit] Contents
Opening Statement: The Case for Race
1 Race and the Law
2 Race and History
3 Anthropology as the Science of Race
4 Resolving the Primate Tree
5 Homo Sapiens and Its Races
6 The Two "Miracles" That Made Humankind
7 Race and Physical Differences
8 Race and Behavior
9 Learning to Live with Race
[edit] Policy Recommendations
After presenting the evidence that human races do in fact exist, the authors put forth three different political systems that take race into account in the final chapter, "Learning to Live with Race." These are "Meritocracy in the Global Marketplace", "Affirmative Action and Race Norming", and "Resegregation and the Emergence of Enthno-States." Sarich and Miele list the advantages and disadvantages of each system and advocate Global Meritocracy as the best of the three options.
The authors then discuss a fourth, alternate option in the form of ethnic bioweapons. Due to constant ethnic conflicts between and within nations, the eventual use of such a weapon is highly probable in the view of the authors.
