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Baker

From Savage to Negro

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-21168-1
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Erscheinungstermin: 30.11.1998
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520211681
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-21168-1
  • Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.11.1998
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 1998
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 463 g
  • Seiten: 313
  • Format (B x H x T): 154 x 228 x 21 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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