This work examines the notion of race, a prominent idea in Western thinking. But, the book argues, race is not a universal idea, not even in the West, it is an ... » 

This work examines the notion of race, a prominent idea in Western thinking. But, the book argues, race is not a universal idea, not even in the West, it is an idea with a definite pedigree, and this text traces that confused pedigree from Hesiod to the Holocaust and beyond. «