Race in a Godless World

This is the first historical analysis of the racial views of atheists and freethinkers. Focusing on Britain and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, it covers racial and evolutionary science, imperialism, slavery and segregation in the United States, immigration debates and racial prejudice in theory and practice. -- .

Aceasta este prima analiza istorica a punctelor de vedere rasiale ale ateilor si liber-ganditorilor. Concentrandu-se pe Marea Britanie si Statele Unite in a doua jumatate a secolului al XIX-lea, acesta acopera stiinta rasiala si evolutionista, imperialismul, sclavia si segregarea in Statele Unite, dezbaterile privind imigratia si prejudecatile rasiale in teorie si practica.