Summary Of Race A History Beyond Black And White By Marc Aronson

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Marc Aronson wrote Race: A History Beyond Black And White. Marc Aronson published this novel in 2007. “Marc Aronson is an author; professor; speaker; editor and publisher who believes that young people, especially pre-teens and teenagers, are smart, passionate, and capable of engaging with interesting ideas in interesting ways”(Marc Aronson, n. d.). “Marc Aronson is currently engaged in a long-term project to figure out how to best understand and share a full history of the human world”(Mar Aronson, n. d.). In the book Race: A History Beyond Black And White, Marc Aronson writes about the history of racial identification and why human beings are prejudiced. Marc Aronson starts the book with himself making a prejudice decision while postponed

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