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From Boas to Black power : racism, liberalism, and American anthropology /

From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project share a common origin: their very f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Mark, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : the custom of the country
  • Introduction
  • The anti-racist liberal Americanism of Boasian anthropology
  • Franz Boas, miscegenation, and the white problem
  • Ruth Benedict, "American" culture, and the color line
  • Post-World War II anthropology and the social life of race and racism
  • Charles Wagley, Marvin Harris, and the comparative study of race
  • Black studies and the reinvention of anthropology