Steven Gregory is an associate professor of anthropology and Africana studies at New York University.Roger Sanjek is an associate professor of anthropology at Queens College -CUNY.

A timely antidote to that reaction tome, The Bell Curve. (Daily News (New York)) A treasure chest full of gems. Virtually every article is fascinating and important, and as a collection, its impact is tremendous. Neo-conservative myths and fantasies fall like nine-pins before its well-researched and tightly argued papers. - Martin Bernal (author of Black Athena) Timely and thoughtful. . . contributes to our understanding of how race operates as a social process and in the contextualization of power and status. (Contemporary Sociology) The coming together of theoretical, multiethnic, and ‘on-the-ground’ perspectives makes this book a particularly valuable contribution to the discourse on race. - Paula Giddings What unites these essays is a common focus on the ‘social construction’ of racial categories and a desire to expose the exercise of racism and its intersection with other forms of social domination such as class, gender, and ethnicity . . . Fascinating. (Multicultural Review)

Steven Gregory is an associate professor of anthropology and Africana studies at New York University.Roger Sanjek is an associate professor of anthropology at Queens College -CUNY.

A timely antidote to that reaction tome, The Bell Curve. (Daily News (New York)) A treasure chest full of gems. Virtually every article is fascinating and important, and as a collection, its impact is tremendous. Neo-conservative myths and fantasies fall like nine-pins before its well-researched and tightly argued papers. - Martin Bernal (author of Black Athena) Timely and thoughtful. . . contributes to our understanding of how race operates as a social process and in the contextualization of power and status. (Contemporary Sociology) The coming together of theoretical, multiethnic, and ‘on-the-ground’ perspectives makes this book a particularly valuable contribution to the discourse on race. - Paula Giddings What unites these essays is a common focus on the ‘social construction’ of racial categories and a desire to expose the exercise of racism and its intersection with other forms of social domination such as class, gender, and ethnicity . . . Fascinating. (Multicultural Review)

Steven Gregory is an associate professor of anthropology and Africana studies at New York University.Roger Sanjek is an associate professor of anthropology at Queens College -CUNY.

A timely antidote to that reaction tome, The Bell Curve. (Daily News (New York)) A treasure chest full of gems. Virtually every article is fascinating and important, and as a collection, its impact is tremendous. Neo-conservative myths and fantasies fall like nine-pins before its well-researched and tightly argued papers. - Martin Bernal (author of Black Athena) Timely and thoughtful. . . contributes to our understanding of how race operates as a social process and in the contextualization of power and status. (Contemporary Sociology) The coming together of theoretical, multiethnic, and ‘on-the-ground’ perspectives makes this book a particularly valuable contribution to the discourse on race. - Paula Giddings What unites these essays is a common focus on the ‘social construction’ of racial categories and a desire to expose the exercise of racism and its intersection with other forms of social domination such as class, gender, and ethnicity . . . Fascinating. (Multicultural Review)