Caste and Race

Comparative Approaches

Bibliographic Data

ID5247822
AuthorsLeo Kuper, Anthony De Reuck, Julie Knight
Year1968
Volume33
Issue3
Pages470
Publication date1968-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2091932
OpenAlexW2009637997
LanguageEN
Citations received9

ing each paper. The individual papers each give a short and admirable presentation of a particular viewpoint and the book is useful in bringing together a great variety of different approaches to the subjects discussed. Caste, slavery and race are three disparate subjects. Caste is probably best viewed as a type of society and slavery as a type of economic organization, while race is used in the symposium chiefly in the sense of racialism. All three are pejorative words, suggesting oppression, exploitation, social rigidity, discrimination, prejudice and allied wickednesses. Their choice as a

Caste · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy

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