LEADER 04042nam 2200601 450 001 9910796756303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9489-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812294897 035 $a(CKB)4100000004818304 035 $a(DE-B1597)497326 035 $a(OCoLC)1029759872 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812294897 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5380482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11555347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5380482 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004818304 100 $a20180526d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRace and the making of American political science /$fJessica Blatt 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (214 pages) 225 1 $aAmerican Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law 311 $a0-8122-5004-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"The white man's mission" : John W. Burgess and the Columbia School of Political Science -- "All things lawful are not expedient" : the American Political Science Association considers Jim Crow -- Twentieth-century problems : administering an American empire -- The journal of race development : evolution and uplift -- Laying specters to rest : political science encounters the Boasian critique of racial anthropology -- Finding new premises : race science, philanthropy, and the institutional establishment of political science. 330 $aRace and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930's, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science. The Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a "Teutonic germ" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery. Within a generation, "Teutonism" would come to seem like philosophical speculation, but well into the twentieth century, major political scientists understood racial difference to be a fundamental shaper of political life. They wove popular and scientific ideas about race into their accounts of political belonging, of progress and change, of proper hierarchy, and of democracy and its warrants. And they attended closely to new developments in race science, viewing them as central to their own core questions. In doing so, they constructed models of human difference and political life that still exert a powerful hold on our political imagination today, in and outside of the academy. By tracing this history, Jessica Blatt effects a bold reinterpretation of the origins of U.S. political science, one that embeds that history in larger processes of the coproduction of racial ideas, racial oppression, and political knowledge. 410 0$aAmerican governance. 606 $aPolitical science$xStudy and teaching (Higher)$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRace 606 $aPolitical science$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aPolitical science$xStudy and teaching (Higher)$xHistory. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aRace. 615 0$aPolitical science$xHistory. 676 $a320.0973 700 $aBlatt$b Jessica$f1970-$01525769 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796756303321 996 $aRace and the making of American political science$93767357 997 $aUNINA