Research, reform, and racial uplift -- Fabricating the authentic and the politics of the real -- Race, relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's ill-fated bid for prominence -- The cult of Franz Boas and his "conspiracy" to destroy the white race.
An account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends.
"In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics o…
An account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends.
An account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends.