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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... Republican takeover of the House and the Senate , the House Republicans ' " Contract with America , " a national debate on the merits of affirmative action , and the meteoric sales of The Bell Curve : Intelligence and Class Structure in ...
... Republican takeover of the House and the Senate , the House Republicans ' " Contract with America , " a national debate on the merits of affirmative action , and the meteoric sales of The Bell Curve : Intelligence and Class Structure in ...
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... Republicans , African Americans in the South began to contest how southern Bourbons and the former planter class imposed racial inequality.16 Initially , African Americans voted straight Republican , never splitting a ticket . The ...
... Republicans , African Americans in the South began to contest how southern Bourbons and the former planter class imposed racial inequality.16 Initially , African Americans voted straight Republican , never splitting a ticket . The ...
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... Republican power continued . Although Republicans relinquished federal control of southern states in 1877 , they lost partisan control of Congress in 1890.21 Republicans lost control of both houses in the Fifty - second Congress , in ...
... Republican power continued . Although Republicans relinquished federal control of southern states in 1877 , they lost partisan control of Congress in 1890.21 Republicans lost control of both houses in the Fifty - second Congress , in ...
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... Republicans became embroiled in in- ternational issues.26 The structuring of African American inequality during the 1890s con- verged with the structuring of the working class . Between 1880 and 1900 there were close to 25,000 strikes ...
... Republicans became embroiled in in- ternational issues.26 The structuring of African American inequality during the 1890s con- verged with the structuring of the working class . Between 1880 and 1900 there were close to 25,000 strikes ...
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... Republican Party in 1896 , without securing one electoral vote from the South , made it painfully evident that the party neither needed nor could secure the southern Black vote . With the backing of powerful capitalists , the Re ...
... Republican Party in 1896 , without securing one electoral vote from the South , made it painfully evident that the party neither needed nor could secure the southern Black vote . With the backing of powerful capitalists , the Re ...
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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