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Author Baker, Lee D., 1966- author.

Title Anthropology and the racial politics of culture / Lee D. Baker.

Publication Info. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, [2010]
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Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2022).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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 of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African Americans did not. Baker argues that the concept of culture developed by ethnologists to understand American Indian languages and customs in the nineteenth century formed the basis of the anthropological concept of race eventually used to confront "the Negro problem" in the twentieth century. As he explores the implications of anthropology's different approaches to African Americans and Native Americans, and the field's different but overlapping theories of race and culture, Baker delves into the careers of prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, including James Mooney Jr., Frederic W. Putnam, Daniel G. Brinton, and Franz Boas. His analysis takes into account not only scientific societies, journals, museums, and universities, but also the development of sociology in the United States, African American and Native American activists and intellectuals, philanthropy, the media, and government entities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Supreme Court."--Publisher's description
Subject Racial Groups.
Ethnology -- United States.
United States.
Indians of North America -- Research.
Race. (OCoLC)fst01086436
sociology.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Research.
Subject Ethnologie.
Anthropology.
Anthropology.
Kultur.
Politics and culture -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Race -- Political aspects -- United States.
anthropology.
Culture.
Sociology.
Evolutionismus.
Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
73.00 ethnology: general. (NL-LeOCL)077610350
Race.
Sociology.
Race -- Social aspects -- United States.
Culture. (OCoLC)fst00885059
Sociology. (OCoLC)fst01123875
Culture -- Research -- United States.
Rassismus.
Anthropology -- United States.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Research.
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
African Americans -- Research.
Other Form: Print version: Baker, Lee D., 1966- Anthropology and the racial politics of culture. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, ©2010 (OCoLC)1138744714
ISBN 9781478090700 (electronic book)
1478090707 (electronic book)
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