It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Race by Ruth Benedict
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In science, race can be a useful concept—for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or any belief system, then danger follows. That is the focus of this classic repudiation of racism, which is as readable and timely now as when it first appeared. Race: Science and Politics was first published in 1940, in response to the global rise of fascism and its pseudoscientific rationales for marginalizing and even exterminating “inferior” people. Writing for a general audience, Ruth Benedict ranges across the history of...
Race by Ruth Benedict is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Race aloud.
Race is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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