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

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University of California Press, 23 nov. 1998 - 313 pages
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.
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter 1 History and Theory of a Racialized Worldview
11
Chapter 2 The Ascension of Anthropology as Social Darwinism
26
Chapter 3 Anthropology in American Popular Culture
54
Holding on to Hierarchy
81
W E B Du Bois and Franz Boas
99
Chapter 6 The New Negro and Cultural Politics of Race
127
Chapter 7 Looking behind the Veil with the Spy Glass of Anthropology
143
Chapter 8 Unraveling the Boasian Discourse
168
Chapter 9 Anthropology and the Fourteenth Amendment
188
Chapter 10 The ColorBlind Bind
208
TIME LINE OF MAJOR EVENTS
229
NOTES
239
BIBLIOGRAPHY
287
INDEX
313
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Lee D. Baker is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University.

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