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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... Plessy v . Ferguson upheld racial segregation and put forth the doctrine known as separate but equal , which allowed unequal segregated public facilities . In 1954 the Brown v . Board of Education decision essentially overturned the ...
... Plessy v . Ferguson upheld racial segregation and put forth the doctrine known as separate but equal , which allowed unequal segregated public facilities . In 1954 the Brown v . Board of Education decision essentially overturned the ...
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... Plessy . Chapter 2 looks at John Wesley Powell , Daniel G. Brinton , and Frederic Ward Putnam , the American ethnologists who were the most instrumental in establish- ing anthropology as a professional discipline . I document how these ...
... Plessy . Chapter 2 looks at John Wesley Powell , Daniel G. Brinton , and Frederic Ward Putnam , the American ethnologists who were the most instrumental in establish- ing anthropology as a professional discipline . I document how these ...
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... Plessy with regard to public education . The role anthropology played in Brown is the role it played in An American Dilemma . It was the basis for asserting that the envi- ronment shaped cultural differences and that there was no proof ...
... Plessy with regard to public education . The role anthropology played in Brown is the role it played in An American Dilemma . It was the basis for asserting that the envi- ronment shaped cultural differences and that there was no proof ...
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... Plessy v . Ferguson ( 1896 ) . This decision established the constitutionality of statutory segregation and helped to establish a climate for an on- slaught of Jim Crow legislation and disfranchisement . It defied consid- erable ...
... Plessy v . Ferguson ( 1896 ) . This decision established the constitutionality of statutory segregation and helped to establish a climate for an on- slaught of Jim Crow legislation and disfranchisement . It defied consid- erable ...
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... Plessy , was White or “ in the proportion of seven eighths Caucasian and one eighth African blood " and " the mixture of colored blood was not discernible in him . ” 42 The Court's opinion was validated by the growing commitment of ...
... Plessy , was White or “ in the proportion of seven eighths Caucasian and one eighth African blood " and " the mixture of colored blood was not discernible in him . ” 42 The Court's opinion was validated by the growing commitment of ...
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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