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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... National Museum of American History , Smithsonian Institution . I had the tremendous opportunity to engage many people who supported my efforts , includ- ing Mary Dyer , Carolyn Goldstein , Johnathan Holloway , Tera W. Hun- ter ...
... National Museum of American History , Smithsonian Institution . I had the tremendous opportunity to engage many people who supported my efforts , includ- ing Mary Dyer , Carolyn Goldstein , Johnathan Holloway , Tera W. Hun- ter ...
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... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , the Harlem Renaissance , the African Amer- ican alliance with the Democratic Party , and the struggle for desegre- gation all contributed to the rise of a new ...
... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , the Harlem Renaissance , the African Amer- ican alliance with the Democratic Party , and the struggle for desegre- gation all contributed to the rise of a new ...
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... national debate on the merits of affirmative action , and the meteoric sales of The Bell Curve : Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life . In Missouri v . Jenkins , the Court ruled that a Missouri federal district court ...
... national debate on the merits of affirmative action , and the meteoric sales of The Bell Curve : Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life . In Missouri v . Jenkins , the Court ruled that a Missouri federal district court ...
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... of American Ethnology ( BAE ) at the Smithsonian Institution , concurred with Brinton when he lectured at the U.S. National Museum ( USNM ) . Powell explained that “ the laws ASCENSION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AS SOCIAL DARWINISM 27.
... of American Ethnology ( BAE ) at the Smithsonian Institution , concurred with Brinton when he lectured at the U.S. National Museum ( USNM ) . Powell explained that “ the laws ASCENSION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AS SOCIAL DARWINISM 27.
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... National Mall , Melville Fuller , the chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution and the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , joined the Court's majority opinion in Plessy v . Ferguson , which stated that “ if one race be inferior ...
... National Mall , Melville Fuller , the chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution and the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , joined the Court's majority opinion in Plessy v . Ferguson , which stated that “ if one race be inferior ...
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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