From Savage to Negro Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954

Name: From Savage to Negro Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
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ISBN: 9780520211681

ISBN-10: 0520211685

ISBN-13: 9780520211681

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lee D. Baker

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Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions--Plessy v. Ferguson(the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) andBrown v. Board of Education(the public school desegregation decision of 1954)--Baker shows how racial categories change over time. Baker paints a vivid picture of the relationships between specific African American and white scholars, who orchestrated a paradigm shift within the social sciences from ideas based on Social Darwinism to those based on cultural relativism. He…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 313
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



History and Theory of a Racialized Worldview



The Ascension of Anthropology as Social Darwinism



Anthropology in American Popular Culture



Progressive-Era Reform: Holding on to Hierarchy



Rethinking Race at the Turn of the Century: W. E. B. Du Bois and Franz Boas



The New Negro and Cultural Politics of Race



Looking behind the Veil with the Spy Glass of Anthropology



Unraveling the Boasian Discourse



Anthropology and the Fourteenth Amendment



The Color-Blind Bind



Time Line of Major Events


Notes


Bibliography


Index