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From savage to Negro : anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 / Lee D. Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520920194
  • 0520920198
  • 0585047731
  • 9780585047737
  • 9780520211681
  • 0520211685
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From savage to Negro.DDC classification:
  • 305.8 21
LOC classification:
  • GN17.3.U6 B35 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 73.46
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1 History and Theory of a Racialized Worldview; Chapter 2 The Ascension of Anthropology as Social Darwinism; Chapter 3 Anthropology in American Popular Culture; Chapter 4 Progressive-Era Reform: Holding on to Hierarchy; Chapter 5 Rethinking Race at the Turn of the Century: W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Boas; Chapter 6 The New Negro and Cultural Politics of Race; Chapter 7 Looking behind the Veil with the Spy Glass of Anthropology; Chapter 8 Unraveling the Boasian Discourse.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.

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.

Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1 History and Theory of a Racialized Worldview; Chapter 2 The Ascension of Anthropology as Social Darwinism; Chapter 3 Anthropology in American Popular Culture; Chapter 4 Progressive-Era Reform: Holding on to Hierarchy; Chapter 5 Rethinking Race at the Turn of the Century: W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Boas; Chapter 6 The New Negro and Cultural Politics of Race; Chapter 7 Looking behind the Veil with the Spy Glass of Anthropology; Chapter 8 Unraveling the Boasian Discourse.

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