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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... Anthro- pology - United States - History . 3. Racism in popular culture— United States - History . 4. Afro - Americans — Public opinion , 5. Public opinion - United States . 6. United States — Race relations . I. Title . GN17.3.U6B35 ...
... Anthro- pology - United States - History . 3. Racism in popular culture— United States - History . 4. Afro - Americans — Public opinion , 5. Public opinion - United States . 6. United States — Race relations . I. Title . GN17.3.U6B35 ...
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... anthro- pologists advanced the polygenesis thesis within the highly politicized antebellum period , and these efforts were aimed at setting Negroes apart from Whites and defining the Negro's place in nature . The most influ- ential ...
... anthro- pologists advanced the polygenesis thesis within the highly politicized antebellum period , and these efforts were aimed at setting Negroes apart from Whites and defining the Negro's place in nature . The most influ- ential ...
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... anthro- pological notions of race to buttress their propaganda . The American public voraciously consumed anthropology as popular culture . Simi- larly , world's fairs , magazines , and museum exhibits validated anthro- pology as a ...
... anthro- pological notions of race to buttress their propaganda . The American public voraciously consumed anthropology as popular culture . Simi- larly , world's fairs , magazines , and museum exhibits validated anthro- pology as a ...
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... anthro- pology its academic credentials as a discipline in the United States . The budding discipline gained power and prestige because ethnologists ar- ticulated theory and research that resonated with the dominant dis- course on race ...
... anthro- pology its academic credentials as a discipline in the United States . The budding discipline gained power and prestige because ethnologists ar- ticulated theory and research that resonated with the dominant dis- course on race ...
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... Anthro- pology in 1893 and president of the AAAS in 1894. He published fre- quently in various journals and had a regular column in Science entitled " Current Notes on Anthropology . " The organs of the American Philosophical Society ...
... Anthro- pology in 1893 and president of the AAAS in 1894. He published fre- quently in various journals and had a regular column in Science entitled " Current Notes on Anthropology . " The organs of the American Philosophical Society ...
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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