From Savage to Negro

Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954

AvLee D. Baker

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

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) and Brown 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 demonstrates that the greatest impact on the way the law codifies racial differences has been made by organizations such as the NAACP, which skillfully appropriated the new social science to exploit the politics of the Cold War.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-11-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:313
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520211681

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

"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."

Innehållsförteckning

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