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

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker, Lee D., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.