In Typecasting, two ace historians offer a profound and sweeping study of the most everyday, often unconscious, forms of prejudice. It's bound to make you think - and think again.' - Barbara Ehrenreich 'With great wit and dark irony, the Ewens remind us that modern culture has been a sinkhole of pseudo-scientific stereotype and racial hallucination. Few books so properly deserve the title of required reading.' - Mike Davis'

In Typecasting, two ace historians offer a profound and sweeping study of the most everyday, often unconscious, forms of prejudice. It's bound to make you think - and think again.' - Barbara Ehrenreich 'With great wit and dark irony, the Ewens remind us that modern culture has been a sinkhole of pseudo-scientific stereotype and racial hallucination. Few books so properly deserve the title of required reading.' - Mike Davis'