For sophomore/junior level courses in Race Relations.An introductory survey covering basic concepts and research, this text presents state of the art essays on both the theoretical issues and empirical studies of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and throughout the world. It introduces the concepts of race, the fallacies of scientific racism, and theoretical perspectives on ethnicity—followed by fourteen chapters that detail the empirical findings of anthropologists on race and ethnicity in the U.S. and the world.