Benedict, Ruth. 1945 (1940). Race: Science and Politics. New York: Viking Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 1945 Edition (vii)

I – Race

Racism: The “ism” of the Modern World (3)

Race: What It Is Not (9)

Man’s Efforts to Classify Himself (22)

Migration and the Mingling of Peoples (40)

What Is Hereditary? (55)

Who Is Superior? (65)

II – Racism

A Natural History of Racism (97)

Why Then Race Prejudice? (140)

Note on The Races of Mankind (167)

The Races of Mankind by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish (169)

Resolutions and Manifestoes of Scientists (195)

Index (201)