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Traces the idea of a white race, showing how the origins of the American identity were tied to the elevation of white skin as the embodiment of beauty, power, and intelligence, and how even intellectuals insisted that only Anglo Saxons were truly American.

Whites --- History. --- Race identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- White people --- White persons --- History --- Race question --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- World history

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Bertha S. Phillpotts (1863-1932) was an English historian and linguist of Scandinavia who served as the Director of Scandinavian Studies in the University of Cambridge from 1926 to 1932. First published as part of Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series in 1913, this pioneering and highly influential book contains a detailed examination of kinship structures in northern Europe during the early medieval period. In this work, Phillpotts analyses the laws and literature of seven northern European countries to explore the kinship structure of their ancient societies. The references to the legal concept of 'weregild' and the description of gender hierarchies, together with the range of evidence examined, cause this work to remain of considerable relevance for the understanding of kinship systems in medieval Germanic and Scandinavian societies.

Kinship --- Teutonic race. --- Clans --- Clans and clan system --- Sibs --- Families --- Tribes --- Nordic race --- Caucasian race --- Ethnology --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition

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Caucasian race --- Colonization --- Race relations --- Imperialism --- World politics --- Race caucasoïde --- Colonisation --- Relations raciales --- Impérialisme --- Politique mondiale --- History --- Histoire

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Race relations --- Caucasian race --- Relations raciales --- Race caucasoïde --- Europe --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement

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The term “Caucasian” is a curious invention of the modern age. Originating in 1795, the word identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be “Caucasian”. Bruce Baum explores the history of the term and the category of the “Caucasian race” more broadly in the light of the changing politics of racial theory and notions of racial identity. With a comprehensive sweep that encompasses the understanding of "race" even before the use of the term “Caucasian,” Baum traces the major trends in scientific and intellectual understandings of “race” from the Middle Ages to the present day. Baum’s conclusions make an unprecedented attempt to separate modern science and politics from a long history of racial classification. He offers significant insights into our understanding of race and how the “Caucasian race” has been authoritatively invented, embraced, displaced, and recovered throughout our history.

Caucasian race --- Race awareness --- White people --- History. --- Political aspects. --- Race identity. --- Offers. --- insight. --- into. --- race. --- significant. --- understanding.