Lee D. Baker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Columbia University and Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

"Through its interrogation of anthropological and political discourses about race and racial formation, From Savage to Negro topples historical myths about the nation's legacy of state-sanctioned segregation and racial difference."

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS                               ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                     Introduction                                        Chapter 1History and Theory of a Racialized Worldview           Chapter 2The Ascension of Anthropology as Social Darwinism     Chapter 3Anthropology in American Popular Culture              Chapter 4Progressive-Era Reform: Holding on to Hierarchy        Chapter 5Rethinking Race at the Turn of the Century:W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Boas                       Chapter 6The New Negro and Cultural Politics of Race          Chapter 7Looking behind the Veil with the Spy Glassof Anthropology

Lee D. Baker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Columbia University and Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

"Through its interrogation of anthropological and political discourses about race and racial formation, From Savage to Negro topples historical myths about the nation's legacy of state-sanctioned segregation and racial difference."

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS                               ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                     Introduction                                        Chapter 1History and Theory of a Racialized Worldview           Chapter 2The Ascension of Anthropology as Social Darwinism     Chapter 3Anthropology in American Popular Culture              Chapter 4Progressive-Era Reform: Holding on to Hierarchy        Chapter 5Rethinking Race at the Turn of the Century:W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Boas                       Chapter 6The New Negro and Cultural Politics of Race          Chapter 7Looking behind the Veil with the Spy Glassof Anthropology