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

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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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baker, Lee D., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
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.
Racisme en anthropologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Anthropologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Racisme dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Opinion publique.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans > Public opinion
Anthropology
Public opinion
Race relations
Racism in anthropology
Racism in popular culture
Rassendiscriminatie.
Populaire cultuur.
Publieke opinie.
Zwarten.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains.
Anthropologie > États-Unis.
Opinion publique > États-Unis > Histoire.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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