|
|
Product Description
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.
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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
- Shoptalk_Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon
- A Good Investment?
- Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea
- The History of White People
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
- The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
- Superior: The Return of Race Science
*If this is not the "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Jun 21, 2024 06:53 +08.
