Race by John R. Baker is a work of physical anthropology that explores human variation and the classification of populations based on biological characteristics. Baker surveys traits such as skin color, hair type, and cranial features, using these to discuss historical approaches to categorizing human groups. The book reflects mid-20th-century scientific perspectives on race, drawing on comparative anatomy, genetics, and evolutionary theory. The work also addresses how racial classifications have been used in broader social and historical contexts, examining the relationship between biology and cultural interpretation. While influential in its time, the book represents an earlier stage of anthropological thought, and many of its assumptions and frameworks are now debated or reconsidered in modern scholarship.