From Savage to Negro

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21168-1
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Lee D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lee D. Baker is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University.