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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Baker, Lee D., 1966- From savage to Negro. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998 (DLC) 97031602 (OCoLC)37663113 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lee D Baker |
ISBN: | 9780520920194 0520920198 0585047731 9780585047737 9780520211681 0520211685 |
OCLC Number: | 42417782 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations |
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. |
Responsibility: | Lee D. Baker. |
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Abstract:
This text 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 1896 and 1954 the author shows how racial categories change over time.
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"Through its interrogation of anthropological and political discourses about race and racial formation, "From Savage to Negro topples historical myths about the nation's legacy of state-sanctioned segregation and racial difference."--"The Nation Read more...
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