Covering basic concepts andresearch, this book presents state of the art, highly readable essays on both the theoretical issues and empirical tudies of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and throughout the world. It introduces the conceptsof race, the fallacies of scientific racism, and heoretical erspectives on ethnicity—followed byfourteen chapters that share the empirical dings f anthropologists on race and ethnicity in the U.S. and the orld. For individuals interested in getting a global perspective on race and ethnic ations, nd reducing some of the superficial media-based racterizations and representations of race and ethnic issues throughout the world.