Basic Books Inc, New York, 1967

It is a unique feature of this comprehensive book that it examines typical patterns of racial contact, not just in our culture, but all over the world, and not just in contemporary societies, but in the more distant past. This approach enables Professor Banton to deal with variations in the quality of race relations at different times and in different places. An important and timely text that synthesizes recent findings in biology, sociology and anthropology on what is surely the most explosive area of human contact in the world today...