From savage to Negro : anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 / / Lee D. Baker
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| Autore: |
Baker Lee D. <1966->
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| Titolo: |
From savage to Negro : anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 / / Lee D. Baker
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 305.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Racism in anthropology - United States - History |
| Anthropology - United States - History | |
| Racism in popular culture - United States - History | |
| African Americans - Public opinion | |
| Public opinion - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- 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 143 -- Chapter 8. Unraveling the Boasian Discourse -- Chapter 9. Anthropology and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Chapter 10. The Color-Blind Bind -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From savage to Negro |
| ISBN: | 0-585-04773-1 |
| 0-520-92019-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828722803321 |
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