From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954University 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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... African Americans . I focus on the first half of the twentieth century because ideas about racial inferiority were ... African American experience , and by doing so I reveal intersections and linkages that have not been considered ...
... African Americans . I focus on the first half of the twentieth century because ideas about racial inferiority were ... African American experience , and by doing so I reveal intersections and linkages that have not been considered ...
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... African Amer- ican alliance with the Democratic Party , and the struggle for ... Americans . Although one can never adequately document all facets of how ... American anthropol- ogy has been the science that takes the explanation of race ...
... African Amer- ican alliance with the Democratic Party , and the struggle for ... Americans . Although one can never adequately document all facets of how ... American anthropol- ogy has been the science that takes the explanation of race ...
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... America's elite . Those who obtained degrees that gave them the authority to chal- lenge the prevailing scientific and legal ... African Americans by transforming science and the law , which in turn changed how race FROM SAVAGE TO NEGRO.
... America's elite . Those who obtained degrees that gave them the authority to chal- lenge the prevailing scientific and legal ... African Americans by transforming science and the law , which in turn changed how race FROM SAVAGE TO NEGRO.
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... African Americans . One of the most pervasive was the idea that Negroes were like children who needed direction , discipline , and the parentlike care of a master . Negroes , he argued , were better off enslaved because this imposed at ...
... African Americans . One of the most pervasive was the idea that Negroes were like children who needed direction , discipline , and the parentlike care of a master . Negroes , he argued , were better off enslaved because this imposed at ...
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... African Americans arise after the Civil War , during the Re- construction era and the ensuing backlash in the 1890s . The academic discipline of anthropology also developed during this time , in some respects because it was the science ...
... African Americans arise after the Civil War , during the Re- construction era and the ensuing backlash in the 1890s . The academic discipline of anthropology also developed during this time , in some respects because it was the science ...
Table des matières
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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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