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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... scientists . These institutions share specific notions about race that converge , are sometimes linked , and often influence one another . Researching , theorizing , and classifying racial groups has always been the province of ...
... scientists . These institutions share specific notions about race that converge , are sometimes linked , and often influence one another . Researching , theorizing , and classifying racial groups has always been the province of ...
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... Scientists steeped in Social Darwinism viewed race and culture as one and the same , arguing that cultural traits were merely race traits and tendencies . Boas built a heavily documented refutation of these ideas , asserting that ...
... Scientists steeped in Social Darwinism viewed race and culture as one and the same , arguing that cultural traits were merely race traits and tendencies . Boas built a heavily documented refutation of these ideas , asserting that ...
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... scientists ' ideas about racial inferiority became more influ- ential in North America as revolutionary fervor began to sweep the col- onies . As English and colonial relations became more antagonistic , rev- olutionary philosophies ...
... scientists ' ideas about racial inferiority became more influ- ential in North America as revolutionary fervor began to sweep the col- onies . As English and colonial relations became more antagonistic , rev- olutionary philosophies ...
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... scientists , however , revived earlier ideas of polygene- sis — multiple origins of the human species — in the wake of the growing antislavery forces and slave revolts . The proponents of these arguments eclipsed the single - origin ...
... scientists , however , revived earlier ideas of polygene- sis — multiple origins of the human species — in the wake of the growing antislavery forces and slave revolts . The proponents of these arguments eclipsed the single - origin ...
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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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