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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... Jim Crow segregation — at the same time gave rise to a professional anthropology that espoused racial infe- riority and , as a consequence , supported and validated the status quo . Three decades later , social and political movements ...
... Jim Crow segregation — at the same time gave rise to a professional anthropology that espoused racial infe- riority and , as a consequence , supported and validated the status quo . Three decades later , social and political movements ...
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... Jim Crow segregation and imperial domina- tion.32 In 1912 John Daniels sagaciously identified the role of early ethnol- ogists in the process of Southern redemption in his sociological study of Black Bostonians . He noted : Whatever ...
... Jim Crow segregation and imperial domina- tion.32 In 1912 John Daniels sagaciously identified the role of early ethnol- ogists in the process of Southern redemption in his sociological study of Black Bostonians . He noted : Whatever ...
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... Jim Crow statutes differed from the centuries - old de facto segregation and the Black Codes enacted after the Civil War because the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed these state laws and grafted the scientific understanding of racial ...
... Jim Crow statutes differed from the centuries - old de facto segregation and the Black Codes enacted after the Civil War because the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed these state laws and grafted the scientific understanding of racial ...
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... Jim Crow legislation , while Republican interests used the anthropological discourse on race to demonstrate that the inferior races of the Pacific and the Caribbean needed uplifting and civilizing.46 CHAPTER 2 The Ascension of ...
... Jim Crow legislation , while Republican interests used the anthropological discourse on race to demonstrate that the inferior races of the Pacific and the Caribbean needed uplifting and civilizing.46 CHAPTER 2 The Ascension of ...
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... Jim Crow and imperial conquests during the 1890s . Before the 1880s the study of anthropology - or ethnology , as it was also called — tended to be an ancillary interest of naturalists and a romantic pastime for physicians interested in ...
... Jim Crow and imperial conquests during the 1890s . Before the 1880s the study of anthropology - or ethnology , as it was also called — tended to be an ancillary interest of naturalists and a romantic pastime for physicians interested in ...
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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