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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... Civil rights activists have used these fields to change how racial meanings are attributed , how racial identities are assigned or embraced , and what the various categories of race mean - psychologically , symbolically , and ...
... Civil rights activists have used these fields to change how racial meanings are attributed , how racial identities are assigned or embraced , and what the various categories of race mean - psychologically , symbolically , and ...
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... civil rights law . ” He deplores the fact that " relativism generates an expectation of group equality . " 12 Like Thomas , D'Souza rewrote the history of social science that under- pinned Brown . D'Souza argued that " Thurgood Marshall ...
... civil rights law . ” He deplores the fact that " relativism generates an expectation of group equality . " 12 Like Thomas , D'Souza rewrote the history of social science that under- pinned Brown . D'Souza argued that " Thurgood Marshall ...
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... civil war erupted instead of elections ; known as Bleeding Kansas , it was a ... Justice Roger B. Taney authored the majority opinion , which was supposed to ... rights as citizens under the U.S. Constitution . Taney framed his argument ...
... civil war erupted instead of elections ; known as Bleeding Kansas , it was a ... Justice Roger B. Taney authored the majority opinion , which was supposed to ... rights as citizens under the U.S. Constitution . Taney framed his argument ...
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... rights a high crime , and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 , which pro- hibited racial discrimination in inns , public conveyances , and places of public amusement . Although Republicans at the federal level tried to deploy U.S. Attorneys ...
... rights a high crime , and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 , which pro- hibited racial discrimination in inns , public conveyances , and places of public amusement . Although Republicans at the federal level tried to deploy U.S. Attorneys ...
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... Civil Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress attempted to create an impermissible municipal code which regulated the private conduct of individuals.23 But as the Democrats swept into Congress , wave after wave of violence ...
... Civil Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress attempted to create an impermissible municipal code which regulated the private conduct of individuals.23 But as the Democrats swept into Congress , wave after wave of violence ...
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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