Following some recent posts, discussing historical conceptions of race, what books would AskHistorians recommend to better understand how one should approach race in a historical context?

by mbdxjst2
EtienneZola

I would recommend Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). The book looks at the cultural construction of race, and particularly how changing interpretations of Christian scripture were part of the development of racial ideas as well as how racial ideas were then imprinted onto the Bible.